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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-06-11 12:29:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-06-13 13:44:17 +0200 |
| commit | b757a2ea37ae3fc454e2c4570d969d79430e52ac (patch) | |
| tree | fee3aea5acbba80fc5ca30bf17cbe7b1892c0876 /man8 | |
| parent | 63f2595f03b0face39f5d58d09289e718bd09f4b (diff) | |
iconvconfig.8: Minor tweaks to Mark Myllynen's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man8')
| -rw-r--r-- | man8/iconvconfig.8 | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man8/iconvconfig.8 b/man8/iconvconfig.8 index 0c3afe82f..9181d19ab 100644 --- a/man8/iconvconfig.8 +++ b/man8/iconvconfig.8 @@ -32,21 +32,22 @@ iconvconfig \- create iconv module configuration cache .RI [ directory ]... .SH DESCRIPTION The -.BR iconv(3) +.BR iconv (3) function internally uses .I gconv modules to convert to and from a character set. A configuration file is used to determine the needed modules for a conversion. Loading and parsing such a configuration file would slow down -.BR iconv(3) -using programs so a caching mechanism has been introduced. +programs that use +.BR iconv (3), +so a caching mechanism is employed. The .B iconvconfig program reads iconv module configuration files and writes -a fastloading gconv module configuration cache file. -In addition to the system provided gconv modules, user can specify +a fast-loading gconv module configuration cache file. +In addition to the system provided gconv modules, the user can specify custom gconv module directories with the environment variable .BR GCONV_PATH . However, iconv module configuration caching is only used when |