Re: iconv command problem

[H Xu <xusubsc%gmail.com@localhost>]

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?

Regards,
H Xu
2011/3/28