debian man page for paracode

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NAME
       paracode - command line Unicode conversion tool

SYNOPSIS
       paracode [-ttables] string

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents the paracode command.

       paracode exploits the full power of the Unicode standard to convert the text into visually similar stream of glyphs, while using completely
       different codepoints.  It is an excellent didactic tool demonstrating the principles and advanced use of the Unicode standard.

       paracode is a command line tool working as a filter, reading standard input in UTF-8 encoding and writing to standard output.

OPTIONS
       -ttables
	      --tables

	      Use given list of conversion tables, separated by a plus sign.

	      Special name 'all' selects all the tables.

	      Note that selecting 'other', 'cyrillic_plus' and 'cherokee' tables (and 'all') makes use of rather esoteric characters, and not  all
	      fonts contain them.

	      Special  table 'mirror' uses quite different character substitution, is not selected automatically with 'all' and does not work well
	      with anything except plain ascii alphabetical characters.

	      Example:

	      paracode -t cyrillic+greek+cherokee

	      paracode -t cherokee  <input >output

	      paracode -r -t mirror  <input >output

	      Possible tables are:

	      cyrillic

	      cyrillic_plus

	      greek

	      other

	      cherokee

	      all

       -r

	      Display text in reverse order after conversion, best used together with -t mirror.

SEE ALSO
       iconv(1)

AUTHOR
       Radovan Garabik <garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>

								    2005-04-16							       PARACODE(1)