tcs - translate character sets
tcs [
-slcv ] [
-f ics ] [
-t ocs ] [
file ... ]
Tcs interprets the named
file(s) (standard input default) as a
stream of characters from the
ics character set or format, converts
them to runes, and then converts them into a stream of characters from the
ocs character set or format on the standard output. The default value
for
ics and
ocs is
utf, the
UTF encoding
described in
utf(6). The
-l option lists the character sets
known to
tcs. Processing continues in the face of conversion errors
(the
-s option prevents reporting of these errors). The
-c
option forces the output to contain only correctly converted characters;
otherwise,
0x80 characters will be substituted for
UTF
encoding errors and
0xFFFD characters will substituted for unknown
characters.
The
-v option generates various diagnostic and summary information on
standard error, or makes the
-l output more verbose.
Tcs recognizes an ever changing list of character sets. In particular, it
supports a variety of Russian and Japanese encodings. Some of the supported
encodings are
- utf
- The Plan 9 UTF encoding, known by ISO as
UTF-8
- utf1
- The deprecated original UTF encoding from
ISO 10646
- ascii
- 7-bit ASCII
- 8859-1
- Latin-1 (Central European)
- 8859-2
- Latin-2 (Czech .. Slovak)
- 8859-3
- Latin-3 (Dutch .. Turkish)
- 8859-4
- Latin-4 (Scandinavian)
- 8859-5
- Part 5 (Cyrillic)
- 8859-6
- Part 6 (Arabic)
- 8859-7
- Part 7 (Greek)
- 8859-8
- Part 8 (Hebrew)
- 8859-9
- Latin-5 (Finnish .. Portuguese)
- koi8
- KOI-8 (GOST 19769-74)
- jis-kanji
- ISO 2022-JP
- ujis
- EUC-JX: JIS 0208
- ms-kanji
- Microsoft, or Shift-JIS
- jis
- (from only) guesses between ISO 2022-JP, EUC or
Shift-Jis
- gb
- Chinese national standard (GB2312-80)
- big5
- Big 5 (HKU version)
- unicode
- Unicode Standard 1.0
- tis
- Thai character set plus ASCII (TIS 620-1986)
- msdos
- IBM PC: CP 437
- atari
- Atari-ST character set
- tcs -f 8859-1
- Convert 8859-1 (Latin-1) characters into UTF
format.
- tcs -s -f jis
- Convert characters encoded in one of several shift JIS
encodings into UTF format. Unknown Kanji will be converted
into 0xFFFD characters.
- tcs -lv
- Print an up to date list of the supported character
sets.
/sys/src/cmd/tcs
ascii(1),
rune(2),
utf(6).