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diff --git a/system/lv/README b/system/lv/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..41dc4fdfaf --- /dev/null +++ b/system/lv/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +lv (pager, grep, and iconv replacement) + +lv is a powerful file viewer like less. lv can decode and encode +multilingual streams in many encodings, including ISO-8859, ISO-2022, +EUC, SJIS, Big5, HZ, and Unicode. It recognizes multi-byte patterns +in regular expressions, and can be run as "lgrep" to act as a grep +replacement. In addition, lv can recognize ANSI escape sequences for +text decoration (making it suitable for use as MANPAGER). + +lv can also be used as a replacement for iconv(1), by redirecting +its standard output and using the -I and -O options to set the input +and output encodings. Although it doesn't support all the features of +iconv, lv will autodetect the input encoding (which iconv won't). + +lv also has one (possibly) unique feature: It can autodetect and +convert or display multiple character encodings *within the same +document*. |