Mention extra encodings.

1 files changed, 61 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/man/iconv_open.3 b/man/iconv_open.3
index 6781072..1931eb6 100644
--- a/man/iconv_open.3
+++ b/man/iconv_open.3
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 .\"   GNU glibc-2 source code and manual
 .\"   OpenGroup's Single Unix specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html
 .\"
-.TH ICONV_OPEN 3  "May 9, 2002" "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ICONV_OPEN 3  "May 12, 2002" "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 iconv_open \- allocate descriptor for character set conversion
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ combinations are system dependent. For the libiconv library, the following
 encodings are supported, in all combinations.
 .TP
 European languages
+.nf
+.fi
 ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16},
 KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU,
 CP{1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257}, CP{850,866},
@@ -36,62 +38,115 @@ Mac{Cyrillic,Ukraine,Greek,Turkish},
 Macintosh
 .TP
 Semitic languages
+.nf
+.fi
 ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, CP862, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic}
 .TP
 Japanese
+.nf
+.fi
 EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
 .TP
 Chinese
+.nf
+.fi
 EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, GB18030, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, BIG5-HKSCS,
 ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT
 .TP
 Korean
+.nf
+.fi
 EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR, JOHAB
 .TP
 Armenian
+.nf
+.fi
 ARMSCII-8
 .TP
 Georgian
+.nf
+.fi
 Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS
 .TP
 Tajik
+.nf
+.fi
 KOI8-T
 .TP
 Thai
+.nf
+.fi
 TIS-620, CP874, MacThai
 .TP
 Laotian
+.nf
+.fi
 MuleLao-1, CP1133
 .TP
 Vietnamese
+.nf
+.fi
 VISCII, TCVN, CP1258
 .TP
 Platform specifics
+.nf
+.fi
 HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP
 .TP
 Full Unicode
 .nf
+.fi
 UTF-8
+.nf
+.fi
 UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE
+.nf
+.fi
 UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE
+.nf
+.fi
 UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE
+.nf
+.fi
 UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE
+.nf
+.fi
 UTF-7
-JAVA
+.nf
 .fi
+JAVA
 .TP
 Full Unicode, in terms of \fBuint16_t\fP or \fBuint32_t\fP
 (with machine dependent endianness and alignment)
 .nf
-UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL
 .fi
+UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL
 .TP
 Locale dependent, in terms of \fBchar\fP or \fBwchar_t\fP
 (with machine dependent endianness and alignment, and with semantics
 depending on the OS and the current LC_CTYPE locale facet)
 .nf
+.fi
 char, wchar_t
+.PP
+When configured with the option \fB\-\-enable-extra-encodings\fP, it also
+provides support for a few extra encodings:
+.TP
+European languages
+.nf
+CP{437,737,775,852,855,857,858,860,861,863,865,869,1125}
+.fi
+.TP
+Semitic languages
+.nf
 .fi
+CP864
+.TP
+Japanese
+.nf
+.fi
+EUC-JISX0213, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP-3
+.PP
 The empty encoding name "" is equivalent to "char": it denotes the
 locale dependent character encoding.
 .PP
@@ -100,6 +155,9 @@ is activated. This means that when a character cannot be represented in the
 target character set, it can be approximated through one or several
 similarly looking characters.
 .PP
+When the string "//IGNORE" is appended to \fItocode\fP, characters that
+cannot be represented in the target character set will be silently discarded.
+.PP
 The resulting conversion descriptor can be used with \fBiconv\fP any number
 of times. It remains valid until deallocated using \fBiconv_close\fP.
 .PP