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TCS

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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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 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

	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 converted into 0xFFFD characters.

tcs -lv

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

SOURCE

/sys/src/cmd/tcs