manconv

converts man page encodings

Convert encoding

$ manconv -f [ISO-8859-1] -t [UTF-8] < [input] > [output]

Auto-detect input encoding

$ manconv -t [UTF-8] [input.man]

Convert man page

$ manconv -f [latin1] -t [utf-8] [oldpage.1] > [newpage.1]

manconv [options] [file]

manconv converts man page encodings. It transforms between character sets.
The tool is part of man-db. Used to convert legacy man pages to UTF-8.

FILE

Input file.

-f ENCODING

Source encoding.

-t ENCODING

Target encoding.

-d

Debug output.

--help

Display help information.

Part of man-db. Encoding detection may fail. Primarily for man pages.

manconv is part of man-db, handling encoding conversion for manual pages.