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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
