6.2.1 Encoding Map File

See Map Files, for a description of the map files.

The meaningful lines of the encoding.map file have the form:

alias      key
iso-8859-1 latin1
latin1     latin1
l1         latin1

where

alias

specifies any name under which the encoding may be used. It influences the option ‘--encoding’, but also the encodings dynamically required, as for instance in the mail style sheet (support for MIME).

When encoding is asked, the lower case version of encoding must be equal to alias.

key

specifies the prefix of the file describing the encoding (key.edf, Encoding Description Files).