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.Dd October 20, 2009 .Dt ICONV_CANONICALIZE 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm iconv_canonicalize .Nd resolving character encoding names to canonical form .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS n iconv.h .Ft const char * .Fn iconv_canonicalize "const char *name" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn iconv_canonicalize function resolves the character encoding name specified by the .Fa name argument to its canonical form. .Sh RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion .Fn iconv_canonicalize , returns the canonical name of the given encoding. If the specified name is already a canonical name, the same value is returned. If the specified name is not an existing character encoding name, NULL is returned. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr iconv 3 .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm function is a non-standard extension, which appeared in the GNU implementation and was adopted in .Fx 9.0 for compatibility's sake. .Sh AUTHORS This manual page was written by .An Gabor Kovesdan Aq Mt gabor@FreeBSD.org .