native2ascii - Native-to-ASCII Converter

Converts a file with native-encoded characters (characters which are non-Latin 1 and non-Unicode) to one with Unicode-encoded characters.

SYNOPSIS

native2ascii [options] [inputfile [outputfile]]

DESCRIPTION

The Java compiler and other Java tools can only process files which contain Latin-1 and/or Unicode-encoded (\udddd notation) characters. native2ascii converts files which contain other character encodings into files containing Latin-1 and/or Unicode-encoded charaters.

If outputfile is omitted, standard output is used for output. If, in addition, inputfile is omitted, standard input is used for input.

OPTIONS

-reverse
Perform the reverse operation: convert a file with Latin-1 and/or Unicode encoded characters to one with native-encoded characters.

-encoding encoding_name
Specify the encoding name which is used by the conversion procedure. The default encoding is taken from System property file.encoding. The encoding_name string can be any of the strings in the first column of the table below.

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Converter        Description                                    
Class 
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8859_1           ISO 8859-1          
8859_2           ISO 8859-2                             
8859_3           ISO 8859-3                                 
8859_4           ISO 8859-4                         
8859_5           ISO 8859-5                                    
8859_6           ISO 8859-6                                 
8859_7           ISO 8859-7                                     
8859_8           ISO 8859-8                                   
8859_9           ISO 8859-9                                     
Big5             Big5, Traditional Chinese                    
CNS11643         CNS 11643, Traditional Chinese                 
Cp037            USA, Canada(Bilingual, French), Netherlands,
                               Portugal, Brazil, Australia    
Cp1006           IBM AIX Pakistan (Urdu)                     
Cp1025           IBM Multilingual Cyrillic: Bulgaria, Bosnia,   
                               Herzegovinia, Macedonia(FYR) 
Cp1026           IBM Latin-5, Turkey                        
Cp1046           IBM Open Edition US EBCDIC                 
Cp1097           IBM Iran(Farsi)/Persian                   
Cp1098           IBM Iran(Farsi)/Persian (PC)                
Cp1112           IBM Latvia, Lithuania                        
Cp1122           IBM Estonia                               
Cp1123           IBM Ukraine                               
Cp1124           IBM AIX Ukraine                           
Cp1125           IBM Ukraine (PC)                       
Cp1250           Windows Eastern European          
Cp1251           Windows Cyrillic                    
Cp1252           Windows Latin-1                         
Cp1253           Windows Greek                       
Cp1254           Windows Turkish                   
Cp1255           Windows Hebrew                            
Cp1256           Windows Arabic                               
Cp1257           Windows Baltic                                 
Cp1258           Windows Vietnamese                          
Cp1381           IBM OS/2, DOS People's Republic of China (PRC)  
Cp1383           IBM AIX People's Republic of China (PRC)        
Cp273            IBM Austria, Germany                            
Cp277            IBM Denmark, Norway                            
Cp278            IBM Finland, Sweden                          
Cp280            IBM Italy                                      
Cp284            IBM Catalan/Spain, Spanish Latin America       
Cp285            IBM United Kingdom, Ireland                   
Cp297            IBM France                                  
Cp33722          IBM-eucJP - Japanese (superset of 5050)        
Cp420            IBM Arabic                                    
Cp424            IBM Hebrew                                     
Cp437            MS-DOS United States, Australia, New Zealand,  
                               South Africa 
Cp500            EBCDIC 500V1                                 
Cp737            PC Greek                                     
Cp775            PC Baltic                                
Cp838            IBM Thailand extended SBCS                  
Cp850            MS-DOS Latin-1                           
Cp852            MS-DOS Latin-2
Cp855            IBM Cyrillic
Cp857            IBM Turkish                                  
Cp860            MS-DOS Portuguese                            
Cp861            MS-DOS Icelandic                               
Cp862            PC Hebrew                                    
Cp863            MS-DOS Canadian French                       
Cp864            PC Arabic                                    
Cp865            MS-DOS Nordic                                
Cp866            MS-DOS Russian                               
Cp868            MS-DOS Pakistan                               
Cp869            IBM Modern Greek                             
Cp870            IBM Multilingual Latin-2                      
Cp871            IBM Iceland                                
Cp874            IBM Thai                                    
Cp875            IBM Greek                                      
Cp918            IBM Pakistan(Urdu)                            
Cp921            IBM Latvia, Lithuania (AIX, DOS)                
Cp922            IBM Estonia (AIX, DOS)                        
Cp930            Japanese Katakana-Kanji mixed with 4370 UDC,    
                               superset of 5026 
Cp933            Korean Mixed with 1880 UDC, superset of 5029    
Cp935            Simplified Chinese Host mixed with 1880 UDC,  
                               superset of 5031 
Cp937            Traditional Chinese Host miexed with 6204 UDC,   
                               superset of 5033 
Cp939            Japanese Latin Kanji mixed with 4370 UDC, 
                               superset of 5035 
Cp942            Japanese (OS/2) superset of 932            
Cp948            OS/2 Chinese (Taiwan) superset of 938     
Cp949            PC Korean                         
Cp950            PC Chinese (Hong Kong, Taiwan)       
Cp964            AIX Chinese (Taiwan)                  
Cp970            AIX Korean                    
EUCJIS           JIS, EUC Encoding, Japanese         
GB2312           GB2312, EUC encoding, Simplified Chinese  
GBK              GBK, Simplified Chinese                 
ISO2022CN        ISO 2022 CN, Chinese                         
ISO2022CN_CNS    CNS 11643 in ISO-2022-CN form, T. Chinese   
ISO2022CN_GB     GB 2312 in ISO-2022-CN form, S. Chinese 
ISO2022KR        ISO 2022 KR, Korean                      
JIS              JIS, Japanese                        
JIS0208          JIS 0208, Japanese                    
KOI8_R           KOI8-R, Russian                    
KSC5601          KS C 5601, Korean  
MS874            Windows Thai        
MacArabic        Macintosh Arabic        
MacCentralEurope Macintosh Latin-2     
MacCroatian      Macintosh Croatian   
MacCyrillic      Macintosh Cyrillic       
MacDingbat       Macintosh Dingbat      
MacGreek         Macintosh Greek              
MacHebrew        Macintosh Hebrew          
MacIceland       Macintosh Iceland        
MacRoman         Macintosh Roman     
MacRomania       Macintosh Romania             
MacSymbol        Macintosh Symbol                        
MacThai          Macintosh Thai             
MacTurkish       Macintosh Turkish       
MacUkraine       Macintosh Ukraine      
SJIS             Shift-JIS, Japanese       
UTF8             UTF-8