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transtab -- 8-bit Character Encoding Converter Generator V1.13
1997-06-14
transtab
Function
transtab is a program that reads two Character Encoding Descriptions
Files and creates a converter program source or just a table or a
binary translation table file.
Type
(External) tool
Format
transtab src_code dst_code tab_name {-c|-t|-u|-b|-n} {-d}
All parameters in {} are optional.
Positional parameters:
src_code the name of the source Encoding Description File
dst_code the name of the destination Encoding Description
File
tab_name this is the filename prefix for the converter source
optional switches (can be positioned "anywhere")
-c create complete ANSI-C program source
<tab_name>.tab, <tab_name>.c and <tab_name>.h
-t create table file <tab_name>.tab only
for #include in C programs
-u create table file <tab_name>.uni only
this is Unicode A Format used by unicode.org
-b create table binary file <tab_name>.xlt
used by transce8
-n create no file
-d dumps tables read (for debugging) to stdout
Note
Default is "-c". Only one of "-c", "-t", "-b" and "-n" is allowed.
Example
# create a converter from ISO 8859-1 to Codepage 850
transtab iso8859.1 cp850 iso1x850
# create only the conversion table from Codepage 852 to ISO 8859-2
transtab cp852 iso8895.2 852xiso2 -t
Author/Copyright
Copyright (c) 1993-1997 by kosta@kostis.net (Kosta Kostis)
This program may be used free of charge at your own risk.
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