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transce8 -- 8-bit Character Encoding Converter V1.13
1997-06-14
transce8
Function
transce8 is a filter (reads stdin, writes stdout) which converts
characters from one 8-bit Character Encoding to another.
Type
(External) Filter
Format
transce8 -s[source] -t[target] {[s]-file} {[t]-file} {-b*}
All parameters in {} are optional.
-s[source] source character encoding name
-t[target] target character encoding name
Positional parameters:
[s]-file
superseedes stdin, file encoded in [source]
if no [t]-file is supplied, this is the output
file name, too.
[t]-file
superseedes stdout, file encoded in [target]
-b* all unconvertable characters will be marked as *
while * is any character you want
Example
# converts srctext.txt to dsttext.txt (Codepage 850 to ISO 8859-1)
transce8 -scp850.net -tiso8859.1 srctext.txt dsttext.txt
Author/Copyright
Copyright (c) 1995-1997 by kosta@kostis.net (Kosta Kostis)
This program may be used free of charge at your own risk.
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