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
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utf |
The Plan 9 UTF encoding, known by ISO as UTF-8 | ||
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utf1 |
The deprecated original UTF encoding from ISO 10646 | ||
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ascii |
7-bit ASCII | ||
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8859-1 |
Latin-1 (Central European) | ||
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8859-2 |
Latin-2 (Czech .. Slovak) | ||
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8859-3 |
Latin-3 (Dutch .. Turkish) | ||
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8859-4 |
Latin-4 (Scandinavian) | ||
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8859-5 |
Part 5 (Cyrillic) | ||
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8859-6 |
Part 6 (Arabic) | ||
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8859-7 |
Part 7 (Greek) | ||
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8859-8 |
Part 8 (Hebrew) | ||
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8859-9 |
Latin-5 (Finnish .. Portuguese) | ||
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koi8 |
KOI-8 (GOST 19769-74) |
jis-kanji
ISO 2022-JP
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ujis |
EUC-JX: JIS 0208 |
ms-kanji
Microsoft, or Shift-JIS
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jis |
(from only) guesses between ISO 2022-JP, EUC or Shift-Jis | ||
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gb |
Chinese national standard (GB2312-80) | ||
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big5 |
Big 5 (HKU version) |
unicode
Unicode Standard 1.0
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tis |
Thai character set plus ASCII (TIS 620-1986) |
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msdos |
IBM PC: CP 437 |
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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