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Updated: July 2017
 
 

alias(4)

Name

alias - alias table file of encoding names

Synopsis

/usr/lib/iconv/alias

Description

This file contains the alias table of encoding names for iconv_open(3C).

The format of the alias table is as follows:

"%s %s\n", <variant encoding name>, <canonical encoding name>

The string specified for the variant encoding name is case-insensitive. A line beginning with '#' is treated as a comment.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability
Committed

See Also

iconv(3C), iconv_close(3C), iconv_open(3C), attributes(5)