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
R dict .
The server's output from
dict
is converted to the user's preferred character set.
NOTE:
Because
iconv
exits with error if conversion is not possible,
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).
dictl's
pager
is set to the value of
DICTL_PAGER
variable, pager specified in user's .dictrc or system-wide dict.conf file,
value of
PAGER
variable or
less
in that order.
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
