Re: [PATCH] iconv.1: New page for iconv(1)

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Marko,

On 06/11/2014 10:09 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2014-06-10 22:28, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> On 06/10/2014 10:38 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>>>
>>> while updating the locale pages I noticed there was no iconv(1) page
>>> in upstream so I wrote one, please see below.
>>
>> Thanks for doing this. Could I ask you to look at the comments below, and send
>> a revised version, please.
> 
> ok, please see below, hopefully the explanation are now clearer
> without going into too low level details.

Yes, thanks, a lot better. I have applied this, but have a question, below.

[...]

> +.SH ENVIRONMENT
> +Internally, the
> +.B iconv
> +program uses the
> +.BR iconv (3)
> +function which in turn uses
> +.I gconv
> +modules to convert to and from a character set.
> +.B iconv
> +supports any character set for which a
> +corresponding gconv configuration and module are provided for.
> +By default, the system provided gconv configuration and modules
> +are used, but
> +.B GCONV_PATH
> +can be defined as a list of pathnames, separated by colons (\(aq:\(aq),
> +for gconv configuration and module search path,
> +to be searched prior to the system provided configuration and modules.

That last sentence is long and hard to parse. What exactly is GCONV_PATH?
Is it a list of configuration paths? module search paths? I am
left uncertain after reading that sentence.

Cheers,

Michael


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