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NAME

6       dictl  -  wrapper script for dict that permits using utf-8 encoded dic‐
7       tionaries on a terminal that is not utf-8 aware.
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SYNOPSIS

10       dictl [OPTIONS] [word]
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Description

13       dictl calls dict with the arguments given on the command  line.   dictl
14       takes the value of the environment variable DICTL_CHARSET as the user's
15       preferred character set.  If this variable is empty, dictl attempts  to
16       determine  the  character  set to be used from the output of the locale
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19       Arguments passed to dictl including word are converted from the  user's
20       preferred   character  set  to  server's  character  set  specified  by
21       DICTL_SERVER_CHARSET variable (utf-8 if it is  unset),  and  passed  to
22       dict.   The  server's  output from dict is converted to the user's pre‐
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25       NOTE: Because iconv omits characters from output that are invalid,
26       recode -f is used for character set conversions  by  default.   If  you
27       prefer iconv, set DICTL_USE_ICONV variable to non-empty string.  If you
28       want to use konwert, set DICTL_USE_KONWERT to non-empty string.
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30       Because recode, iconv and konwert do not support conversion to or  from
31       the  "C"  or  "POSIX"  locales,  it is recommended that all users whose
32       locale is "C" or "POSIX", set DICTL_CHARSET to "latin1" (ISO_8859-1).
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OPTIONS

35       dictl accepts all dict options as described in dict(1).
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AUTHOR

38       dictl was written by Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>
39       This   manual   page   was    written    by    Robert    D.    Hilliard
40       <hilliard@debian.org> and Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>
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SEE ALSO

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