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| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/iconv.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/iconv.1 b/man/man1/iconv.1 index 2c8ae0d29c..fba5a4a766 100644 --- a/man/man1/iconv.1 +++ b/man/man1/iconv.1 @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ is appended to .IR to-encoding , characters that cannot be converted are discarded and an error is printed after conversion. +(Characters that cannot be decoded are treated as an error +with or without this flag.) .IP If the string .B //TRANSLIT @@ -73,8 +75,11 @@ transliterated are replaced with a question mark (?) in the output. List all known character set encodings. .TP .B \-c -Silently discard characters that cannot be converted instead of +Discard characters that cannot be converted instead of terminating when encountering such characters. +.\" glibc commit 6cbf845fcdc76131d0e674cee454fe738b69c69d +POSIX requires that this option does not change +the exit status of the program. .TP .BI \-\-output= outputfile .TQ |