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{{ICONV / GNU ICONV command}}

	{GNU Iconv} is a free software maintained and developped by the {GNU}
	project and the {Free Software Foundation}. {ICONV} allows converting
	files from encoding to encoding, and provide a large set of encoding.

	This is really helpfull when you want to port batch scripts between
	platforms because for exemple, GNU/Linux uses {UTF-8} charset whereas
	WINDOWS uses a various set of codepages, as {CP863} for western europe.

	{Iconv} is distributed as a free software by the {GNU} project, and
	licensed under the terms of the {GNU GPLv3}

{{Synopsis}}

${	ICONV [-c] [-s] [-f encoding1] [-t encoding2] [fichier]
	ICONV -l}

	Converts a file from an encoding to another one.

		- {-c} : Silently ignore characters that can't be converted to
	        destination encoding.

		- {-s} : Ignore errors messages caused by character conversion
		  error, but places this characters on se destination text though.

		- {-f encoding1} : Set {encoding1} as source encoding.

		- {-t encoding2} : Set {encoding2} as destination encoding.

		- {-l} : Outputs a list of all supported encoding.

{{Compatibility}}

	Avaliable since version {0.7}.

	Uncompatible with {cmd.exe}, this command comes from the gnu operating
	system.

{{See also}}

	{nano|NANO / GNU Nano editor}, {hlp|HLP command}