Re: iconv command problem

[Marc Balmer <mbalmer%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Am 28.03.11 08:51, schrieb H Xu:
> On 2011/3/28 14:19, Marc Balmer wrote:
>> Am 28.03.11 08:06, schrieb H Xu:
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> On both Linux and FreeBSD, the following command could be used to remove
>>> invalid characters:
>>>
>>> $ man cc | iconv -c
>>>
>>> However, on NetBSD, it seems that iconv doesn't support this kind of
>>> usage. Is there any solution?
>>
>> Actually it does work like you described.  -c is a valid option to iconv
>> in NetBSD and it does strip characters that it can not convert.
>>
> 
> It gives the following on my NetBSD:
> 
> % man cc | iconv -c
> Usage:  iconv [-cs] -f <from_code> -t <to_code> [file ...]
>         iconv -f <from_code> [-cs] [-t <to_code>] [file ...]
>         iconv -t <to_code> [-cs] [-f <from_code>] [file ...]
>         iconv -l
> 
> Isn't it weird?

Mea culpa!  You are right.  I was on the wrong machine when I tested it...

Well, indicate a source and destination encoding and it should work.