The mnemonics file

The mnemonics file, named mnemonics.dat, contains POSIX mnemonic strings that can be used to replace unmappable source characters, if necessary, during character set conversion.

The mnemonics file contains only UCS-2 <-> mnemonic string conversions. Each Unicode mnemonic in the shipped mnemonics file is a string of characters from the XPG4 Portable Character Set representing a Unicode character.