[PATCH] Mention "iconv --list" in the man page.

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Fri Jan 25 14:08:06 GMT 2008


---
Adding a hint about iconv --list is a good idea.  This patch does it.

Matt

 rsync.yo |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index 047e360..870993a 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -2015,7 +2015,8 @@ dit(bf(--iconv=CONVERT_SPEC)) Rsync can convert filenames between character
 sets using this option.  Using a CONVERT_SPEC of "." tells rsync to look up
 the default character-set via the locale setting.  Alternately, you can
 fully specify what conversion to do by giving a local and a remote charset
-separated by a comma (local first), e.g. bf(--iconv=utf8,iso88591).
+separated by a comma (local first), e.g. bf(--iconv=utf8,iso88591).  (Run
+"iconv --list" to see a list of the charset names that a machine supports.)
 Finally, you can specify a CONVERT_SPEC of "-" to turn off any conversion.
 The default setting of this option is site-specific, and can also be
 affected via the RSYNC_ICONV environment variable.
-- 
1.5.4.rc3.15.g4bbc



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