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iconvconfig.8: Minor tweaks to Mark Myllynen's patch 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-06-11 12:29:16 +02:00
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@ -32,21 +32,22 @@ iconvconfig \- create iconv module configuration cache
.RI [ directory ]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR iconv(3)
.BR iconv (3)
function internally uses
.I gconv
modules to convert to and from a character set.
A configuration file is used to determine the needed modules
for a conversion.
Loading and parsing such a configuration file would slow down
.BR iconv(3)
using programs so a caching mechanism has been introduced.
programs that use
.BR iconv (3),
so a caching mechanism is employed.
The
.B iconvconfig
program reads iconv module configuration files and writes
a fastloading gconv module configuration cache file.
In addition to the system provided gconv modules, user can specify
a fast-loading gconv module configuration cache file.
In addition to the system provided gconv modules, the user can specify
custom gconv module directories with the environment variable
.BR GCONV_PATH .
However, iconv module configuration caching is only used when