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(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); in this case, 0x80 characters will be sub-
stituted for UTF encoding errors and 0xFFFD characters will
substituted for unknown characters unless the -c option is
specified.
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 UTF encoding from 10646
ascii 7-bit ASCII
8859-1 Latin-1 (Central European)
latin1 ISO 8859-1
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
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
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converted into 0xFFFD characters.
SEE ALSO
ascii(1), rune(2), utf(6).
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