NAME¶
dictl - wrapper script for
dict that permits using
utf-8 encoded
dictionaries on a terminal that is not
utf-8 aware.
SYNOPSIS¶
dictl [OPTIONS] [word]
Description¶
dictl calls
dict with the arguments given on the command line.
dictl takes the value of the environment variable
DICTL_CHARSET
as the user's preferred character set. If this variable is empty, dictl
attempts to determine the character set to be used from the output of the
locale command.
Arguments passed to dictl including
word are converted from the user's
preferred character set to server's character set specified by
DICTL_SERVER_CHARSET variable (utf-8 if it is unset), and passed to
dict. The server's output from
dict is converted to the user's
preferred character set.
NOTE: Because
iconv omits characters from output that are invalid,
recode -f is used for character set conversions by default. If you prefer
iconv, set
DICTL_USE_ICONV variable to non-empty string. If you
want to use
konwert, set
DICTL_USE_KONWERT to non-empty string.
Because
recode, iconv and
konwert do not support conversion to or
from the "C" or "POSIX" locales, it is recommended that
all users whose locale is "C" or "POSIX", set
DICTL_CHARSET to "latin1" (ISO_8859-1).
OPTIONS¶
dictl accepts all dict options as described in
dict(1).
AUTHOR¶
dictl was written by Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>
This manual page was written by Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
and Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>
SEE ALSO¶
dict(1),
recode(1),
iconv(1),
konwert(1)