NAME¶
cstocs -- charset encoding convertor for the Czech and Slovak languages.
cstocs [options] src_encoding dst_encoding [files ...]
SYNOPSIS¶
cstocs il2 ascii < file | less
cstocs -i utf8 il2 file1 file2 file3
cstocs --help
DESCRIPTION¶
Cstocs is a simple conversion utility to change charset encoding of a text. It
reads either specified files or (if none specified) the standard input,
assumes that the input is encoded in "src_encoding" and ties to
reencode it into "dst_encoding". The result is written to the
standard output.
Run "cstocs" without parameters to get short help and list of
available encodings.
Characters that are not defined in "src_encoding" are passed to the
output unchanged.
If source text contains character, that is defined in "src_encoding"
but not in "dst_encoding", it can be handled several ways. For
example, character "e with caron" (symbol ecaron), and "d with
caron" (symbol dcaron) are included in the iso-8859-2 encoding, but not
in the iso-8859-1. If you will do reencoding of 8859-2 text to 8859-1, you may
want to do one of the following actions:
- 1.
- Keep it the same, option "--nofillstring".
- 2.
- Do not produce any output instead of "ecaron" symbol, option
"--null".
- 3.
- Substitute some string (possibly a space) instead of both ecaron and
dcaron, options "--fillstring".
- 4.
- Substitute a letter "d" instead of dcaron, and "e"
instead of ecaron. It is even possible to substitute string instead of
symbol, so you can replace the "AE" Latin character with string
"AE" (letter "A", and letter "E"). Or you
can replace a "plusminus sign" with a string "+/-".
These substitutions are described in the accent file.
OPTIONS¶
- -i, -i.ext, --inplace.ext
- Files specified will be converted in-place, using Perl "-i"
facility. Optionaly, an extension for backup copies may be specified after
dot. This parameter has to be the first one, if specified.
- --dir directory
- Encoding files are taken from directory instead of the default,
which is Cz/Cstocs/enc in the Perl lib tree. The location of
encoding files can also be changed using the CSTOCSDIR environment
variable, but the --dir option has the highest priority.
- --fillstring string
- If source text contains character, that is defined in the
"src_encoding" but not in the "dst_encoding" nor in
the accent file (or accent file is not used), it is replaced
by "string". The default is single space.
- --nofillstring
- Disable changes of characters that would otherwise have fillstring
applied. This is different from "--null" because that cancels
that character out.
- --null
- Completely equivalent to --fillstring "".
- --nochange or --noaccent
- Do not use the accent file at all.
- --onebyone
- Use only those rules from the accent file, which rewrite one
character to one character. If this option is specified, character
"ecaron" will be rewritten to "e", but "AE"
character will not be rewritten to "AE" string.
- --onebymore
- Use all rules from accent file. This is the default option.
SEE ALSO¶
Cz::Cstocs(3).
AUTHOR¶
Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak has done the original Un*x implementation.
Jan Pazdziora, adelton@fi.muni.cz, created the Perl module version.