Simplified 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. Simplified 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 Simplified Chinese Solaris software.

Table 6-1 Simplified Chinese iconv Code Conversion Modules (zh locale)


Code	Symbol	Target Code	Symbol
GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc	ISO 2022-7	zh_CN.iso2022-7
ISO 2022-7	zh_CN.iso2022-7	GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc
GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc	ISO 2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN
ISO-2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN	GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc
UTF-8	UTF-8	GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc
GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc	UTF-8	UTF-8
GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc	BIG5	zh_TW-big5
BIG5	zh_TW.big5	GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc
HZ-GB-2312	HZ-GB-2312	GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc
GB2312-80	zh_CN.euc	HZ-GB-2312	zh_CN.euc

Table 6-2 Simplified Chinese iconv Code Conversion Modules (zh.GBK locale)


Code	Symbol	Target Code	Symbol
UTF-8	UTF-8	GBK	zh_CN.gbk
GBK	zh_CN.gbk	UTF-8	UTF-8
GBK	zh_CN.gbk	BIG5P	zh_TW-big5p
GBK	zh_CN.gbk	BIG5HK	zh_TW-big5hk
GBK	zh_CN.gbk	ISO-2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN
ISO-2022-CN	zh_CN.iso2022-CN	GBK	zh_CN.gbk
GBK	zh_CN.gbk	BIG5	zh_TW-big5
BIG5	zh_TW-big5	GBK	zh_CN.gbk
BIG5P	zh_TW-big5p	GBK	zh_CN.gbk
BIG5HK	zh_TW-big5hk	GBK	zh_CN.gbk
HZ-GB-2312	HZ-GB-2312	GBK	zh_CN.gbk
GBK	zh_CN.gbk	HZ-GB-2312	zh_CN.gbk
HZ-GB-2312	HZ-GB-2312	UTF-8	UTF-8
UTF-8	UTF-8	HZ-GB-2312	HZ-GB-2312

Table 6-3 Simplified Chinese iconv Code Conversion Modules (zh_CN.GB18030 locale)


Code	Symbol	Target Code	Symbol
UTF-8	UTF-8	GB18030-2000	zh_CN.gb18030
GB18030-2000	zh_CN.gb18030	UTF-8	UTF-8
GB18030-2000	zh_CN.gb18030	BIG5HK	zh_HK-big5hk
GB18030-2000	zh_CN.gb18030	BIG5P	zh_TW-big5p
BIG5HK	zh_HK-big5hk	GB18030-2000	zh_CN.gb18030
BIG5P	zh_TW-big5p	GB18030-2000	zh_CN.gb18030

The following iconv code conversion modules are located in /usr/lib/iconv :

For the zh locale:

zh_CN.euc%zh_TW-big5.so
zh_TW-big5%zh_CN.euc.so

For the zh.GBK locale:

UTF-8%zh_CN.gbk.so
zh_CN.gbk%UTF-8.so
zh.CN.gbk%zh_CN.iso2022-CN.so
zh_CN.iso2022-CN%zh_CN.gbk.so
zh_CN.gbk%zh_TW-big5.so
zh_TW-big5%zh_CN.gbk.so

In the following example, an EUC mail file is converted to ISO 2022-CN:

system% iconv -f zh_CN.euc -t zh_CN.iso2022-CN mail.euc > mail.iso2022-CN

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