Traditional Chinese Solaris User's Guide

`iconv`

The iconv command converts the characters or sequences of characters in a file from one code set to another and writes the results to standard output. Traditional Chinese Solaris software includes special filters for the iconv command.

If no conversion exists for a particular character, it is converted to the underscore "_" in the target codeset. The following options are supported:

-f from code

Symbol of the input code set.

-t to code

Symbol of the output code set.

The following code set conversion modules are supported in Traditional Chinese Solaris software.

Table 5-1


Source Code	Symbol	Target Code	Symbol
CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc	Big-5	zh_TW-big5
CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc	ISO 2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7
Big-5	zh_TW-big5	CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc
Big-5	zh_TW-big5	ISO 2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7
ISO 2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7	CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc
ISO 2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7	Big-5	zh_TW-big5
CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc	ISO 2022-CN-EXT	zh_TW-iso2022-CN-EXT
ISO 2022-CN-EXT	zh_TW-iso2022-CN-EXT	CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc
Big-5	zh_TW-big5	ISO 2022-CN	zh_TW-iso2022-CN
ISO 2022-CN	zh_TW-iso2022-CN	Big-5	zh_TW-big5
UTF-8	UTF-8	CNS 11643	zh_TW-euc
CNS 11643	CNS 11643	UTF-8	UTF-8
UTF-8	UTF-8	Big-5	zh_TW-big5
Big-5	zh_TW-big5	UTF-8	UTF-8
UTF-8	UTF-8	ISO 2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7
ISO 2022-7	zh_TW-iso2022-7	UTF-8	UTF-8
IBM Cp937	zh_TW-cp937	UTF-8	UTF-8
UTF-8	UTF-8	IBM Cp937	zh_TW-cp937
Big-5+	zh_TW-big5p	UTF-8	UTF-8
UTF-8	UTF-8	Big-5+	zh_TW-big5p

In the following example, an EUC mail file is converted to Big5:

system% iconv -f zh_TW-euc -t zh_TW-big5 mail.euc > mail.big5

For further information, see the iconv(3) and iconv_zh_TW(5) man pages. These utilities can be used for converting files for printing. See Traditional Chinese Solaris System Administrator's Guide for more information.