NAME

mkcsmapper —

generates hashed conversion data for iconv(3)

SYNOPSIS

mkcsmapper [-d] [-m | -p] [-o outfile] [infile]

DESCRIPTION

The mkcsmapper utility generates binary conversion data from plain text conversion tables for the iconv(3) library. The conversion data has two components: The conversion mapping between specific character encodings. A pivot file, which the possible source and destination encoding pairs or the set of mappings to use for a compound encoding.

The following options are available:

-d: Turns on debug mode.
-m: Generate mapping data from infile.
-o outfile: Put generated binary data to outfile.
-p: Generate pivot data from outfile.

EXIT STATUS

The mkcsmapper utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

HISTORY

mkcsmapper first appeared in NetBSD 2.0, and made its appearance in FreeBSD 9.0.

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>.