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.TH PARACODE 1 "2005-04-16"
.SH NAME
paracode \- command line Unicode conversion tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B paracode
.RI [ -t tables ]
string
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the
.B paracode
command.
.PP
\fBparacode\fP 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.
.PP
\fBparacode\fP is a command line tool working as
a filter, reading standard input in UTF-8 encoding and writing to
standard output.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-t tables
.BI \-\-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 output
paracode -r -t mirror output
Possible tables are:
cyrillic
cyrillic_plus
greek
other
cherokee
all
.TP
.BI \-r
Display text in reverse order after conversion, best used together with -t mirror.
.SH SEE ALSO
iconv(1)
.SH AUTHOR
Radovan Garab\('ik