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 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
dict(1),
recode(1)
iconv(1)
konwert(1)