NAME

tcs − translate character sets

SYNOPSIS

­tcs [ ­-slcv ] [ ­-f ­ics ] [ ­-t ­ocs ] [ ­file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

­Tcs interprets the named ­file(s) (standard input default) as a stream of characters from the ­ics character set or format, converts them to runes, and then converts them into a stream of characters from the ­ocs character set or format on the standard output.  The default value for ­ics and ­ocs is utf, the UTF encoding described in utf(6). The ­-l option lists the character sets known to tcs. Processing continues in the face of conversion errors (the ­-s option prevents reporting of these errors).  The ­-c option forces the output to contain only correctly converted characters; otherwise, ­0x80 characters will be substituted for UTF encoding errors and ­0xFFFD characters will substituted for unknown characters. 

The ­-v option generates various diagnostic and summary information on standard error, or makes the ­-l output more verbose. 

­Tcs recognizes the following character sets:

­utf (our) UTF encoding from X/Open

­utf1 UTF encoding from 10646

­ascii 7-bit ASCII

­8859-1 Latin-1 (Central European)

­8859-2 Latin-2 (Czech .. Slovak)

­8859-3 Latin-3 (Dutch .. Turkish)

­8859-4 Latin-4 (Scandinavian)

­8859-5 Part 5 (Cyrillic)

­8859-6 Part 6 (Arabic)

­8859-7 Part 7 (Greek)

­8859-8 Part 8 (Hebrew)

­8859-9 Latin-5 (Finnish .. Portuguese)

­kio8 KIO-8 (recommended)

­kio8x KIO-8 (alternate)

­jis XJIS

­gb Chinese national standard (GB2312-80)

­big5 Big 5 (HKU version)

­unicode Unicode 1.0

EXAMPLES

­tcs -f 8859-1
Convert 8859-1 (Latin-1) characters into UTF format. 

­tcs -s -f jis
Convert characters encoded in one of several shift JIS encodings into UTF format.  Unknown Kanji will be converted into ­0xFFFD characters. 

­tcs -lv
Print an up to date list of the supported character sets.

SEE ALSO

ascii(1), rune(2), utf(6).

Plan 9  —  January 03, 1993