mkesdb(1)

mkesdb1

Generates conversion catalog for iconv(3)

Usage

mkesdb [-md] -o outfile infile

Overview

The mkesdb utility generates conversion catalog for the iconv(3) library. The generated data includes a list of supported encodings and their most important characteristics, like the pluggable module to use

The following options are available:

-d

Turns on debug mode.

-m

Process directory catalog or alias file. If not specified, the input file is treated as an encoding description.

-o outfile

Put generated binary data to outfile.

Exit status

The mkesdb utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Releases

30 releases since FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE; the text changed 17 times.

  1. 10.0
  2. 10.1
  3. 10.2
  4. 10.3
  5. 10.4
  6. 11.0
  7. 11.1
  8. 11.2
  9. 11.3
  10. 11.4
  11. 12.0
  12. 12.1
  13. 12.2
  14. 12.3
  15. 12.4
  16. 13.0–13.2
  17. 13.3–13.5
  18. 14.0–16.0

History

mkesdb first appeared in NetBSD 2.0, FreeBSD 9.0.

Authors

This manual page was written by Gabor Kovesdan ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.