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NAME

       mbconv - Character encoding scheme converter

SYNOPSIS

	 mbconv [options] <file> ...

DESCRIPTION

       This is an application of a library to handle multiple octets character encoding:

	 http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/libmoe/

       mainly written for debugging of the library.

       It reads octet by octet from files given on command line (or standard input if no file is specified), converts character encoding scheme
       (CES) as specified by command line options (described below), and output to standard output (or a file specified by -t option or -a
       option).

       Options

       -?, -h, --help
	   display summary of options and exits.

       -a file, --append-to=file
	   output is appended to file.

       -c converters, --convert-to=converters
	   specifies character encoding conversion.  converters must be comma separated list of words described in "Conversion specifiers".

       -f flags, --flag=flags
	   specifies flags to change behavior of conversion.  flags must be comma separated list of words describe in "Flag specifiers".

       -i, --input
	   succeeding options apply to input stream.

       -m string, --mime-charset=string
	   mime encoding conforming to RFC2047 is performed.  <string> is used as charset name.

       -n, --line-number
	   line number (>= 1) is inserted to beginning of each line.

       -o, --output
	   succeeding options apply to output stream.

       -t file, --to=file
	   output to file (truncated).

       -w, --width
	   output width of each line.

       -cs <string>, --charset=string
	   specifies charset name.  Some language specifications are also accepted as well as MIME charset names, which are used to restrict can-
	   didates of encoding scheme of input stream.	Acceptable languages are listed in "Acceptable languages".

       --format=string
	   specifies output format

       --which
	   output charset name of each input stream to stderr, in the form

	   file name":" charset name

	   if two or more files are specifed on the command line, or

	   charset name

	   otherwise.

       --regex=regular expression
	   specifies regeular expression to filter output.  Character encoding of regular expression can be specified by putting string of the
	   form

	   "*"charset name"*"

	   at the beginning of the regular expression, otherwise UTF-8.  Character encoding of the expression is converted to that of output
	   stream before matching.

       Conversion specifiers

       Conversion is applied just before each character is output to stream.  Conversion setup is automatically performed based on CES.  So in
       most cases, yo need not to specify converters explicitly.

       ascii
	   domestic ASCII converted to US-ASCII,

       ces converted appropriately according to the CES bound to input/output stream,

       to-ucs
	   converted to Unicode,

       f2h, full-to-half
	   Fullwidth compatibility characters are converted to corresponding halfwidth ones,

       h2f, half-to-full
	   Halfwidth compatibility characters are converted to corresponding fullwidth ones,

       jisx0213
	   Codepoints in JIS C 6226 or in JIS X 0208 which are bound to no character are converted into JIS X 0213 plane 1,

       jisx0213-aggressive
	   All codepoints in JIS C 6226 or in JIS X 0208 are converted into JIS X 0213 plane 1,

       ms-latin1
	   Unicode characters of code point between 0x80 and 0x9F (both inclusive) are converted to other Unicode characters as if they are char-
	   acters of those code point in Microsoft Windows Codepage 1252.

       ucs-to-jis0208-extra, jis0208-to-ucs-extra
	   Converters between some JIS X 0208 and Unicode characters having similar glyphs (by the courtesy of Ambrose Li <acli@ada.dhs.org>).

       Flag specifiers

       use-0x28-for-94x94inG0, 28
	   use "1/11 2/4 2/8 F" instead of "1/11 2/4 F" to designate charsets with final octet 4/0, 4/1, or 4/2 to G0,

       ac, ascii-at-control
	   escape sequence "1/11 2/8 4/2" is output before every control character,

       nossl, ignore-7bit-single-shift
	   escape sequence for 7 bit single shift is ignored,

       dnc, discard-notprefered-char
	   discard characters which CES bound to output stream can not decode.

       Acceptable languages

       The following words may be given instead of MIME charset name for input stream.	In that case, encoding scheme is automatically detected
       (hopefully) among succeeding ones.

       c, cn, china, chinese
	   x-gb-18030-2000, cn-big5, utf-8, or x-euc-tw.

       j, ja, jp, japan, japanese
	   euc-jp, shift_jis, or utf-8.

       k, ko, kr, korea, korean
	   euc-kr, x-johab, utf-8, or x-unified-hangul.

       cjk iso-8859-1, x-gb-18030-2000, cn-big5, x-euc-tw, euc-jp, shift_jis, euc-kr, x-johab, x-unified-hangul, or utf-8.

AUTHOR

       Kiyokazu SUTO <suto@ks-and-ks.ne.jp>

DISCLAIMER etc.
       This program is distributed with absolutely no warranty.

       Anyone can use, modify, and re-distibute this program without any restriction.

3rd Berkeley Distribution					    2001-03-12								 MBCONV(1)