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-.Dd November 26, 2021
+.Dd January 7, 2023
.Dt SFEED 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ SPACE character.
Control characters are removed.
.Pp
The content field can contain newlines and these are escaped.
-TABs, newlines and '\\' are escaped with '\\', so it becomes: '\\t', '\\n'
-and '\\\\'.
+TABs, newlines and '\e' are escaped with '\e', so it becomes: '\et', '\en'
+and '\e\e'.
Other whitespace characters except spaces are removed.
Control characters are removed.
.Pp
@@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ Item, categories, multiple values are separated by the '|' character.
.Bd -literal
curl -s 'https://codemadness.org/atom.xml' | sfeed
.Ed
+.Pp
+To convert the character set from a feed that is not UTF-8 encoded the
+.Xr iconv 1
+tool can be used:
+.Bd -literal
+curl -s 'https://codemadness.org/some_iso-8859-1_feed.xml' | \e
+iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 | \e
+sfeed
+.Ed
.Sh EXAMPLE SETUP
1. Create a directory for the sfeedrc configuration and the feeds:
.Bd -literal
@@ -94,6 +103,7 @@ There are also other formatting programs included.
The README file has more examples.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sfeed_curses 1 ,
+.Xr sfeed_opml_import 1 ,
.Xr sfeed_plain 1 ,
.Xr sfeed_update 1 ,
.Xr sfeed 5 ,
@@ -101,5 +111,5 @@ The README file has more examples.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Hiltjo Posthuma Aq Mt hiltjo@codemadness.org
.Sh CAVEATS
-If a timezone for the timestamp field is not in the RFC822 or RFC3339 format it
-is not supported and the timezone is interpreted as UTC+0.
+If a timezone for the timestamp field is not in the RFC 822 or RFC 3339 format
+it is not supported and the timezone is interpreted as UTC+0.