TCS(1) TCS(1)
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(7). 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 con-
tain 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 an ever changing list of character sets. In
particular, it supports a variety of Russian and Japanese
encodings. Some of the supported encodings are
utf The Plan 9 UTF encoding, known by ISO as UTF-8
utf1 The deprecated original UTF encoding from ISO
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)
koi8 KOI-8 (GOST 19769-74)
jis-kanji ISO 2022-JP
ujis EUC-JX: JIS 0208
ms-kanji Microsoft, or Shift-JIS
jis (from only) guesses between ISO 2022-JP, EUC or
Shift-Jis
gb Chinese national standard (GB2312-80)
big5 Big 5 (HKU version)
unicode Unicode Standard 1.0
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TCS(1) TCS(1)
tis Thai character set plus ASCII (TIS 620-1986)
msdos IBM PC: CP 437
atari Atari-ST character set
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 con-
verted into 0xFFFD characters.
tcs -lv
Print an up to date list of the supported character
sets.
SOURCE
/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/tcs
SEE ALSO
ascii(1), rune(3), utf(7).
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