NAME

       makechs  -  A  program that can be used to create additional translation tables for use by
       JamNNTPd.

SYNOPSIS

       makechs <fromchrs> <destchrs> <frommap> [<destmap>]

DESCRIPTION

       The *.chs files in the "xlat" and "unicode/xlat" directories are character set translation
       tables  in  the  GoldED+  format. The files were created from mappings files found at this
       URL:

       http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/

       Fallback sequences for characters that do not exist in the target charset were taken  from
       Markus Kuhn's transliteration tables found at the URL below:

       http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/transtab.tar.gz

       If  you  want  to  create  additional  translation tables, you can easily do so using this
       utility.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below:

       <fromchrs>
              The fidonet name of the charset you want to convert from.

       <destchrs>
              The fidonet name of the charset you want to convert to.

       <frommap>
              The Unicode mappings file for the source charset.

       <destmap>
              The Unicode mappings file for the  destination  charset.  If  you  don't  supply  a
              mappings  file,  makechs  will  instead  create a chs file that converts the source
              charset to utf-8.

       The output of makechs is written to the console and needs to be redirected to the  desired
       file.

SEE ALSO

       jamnntpd(1).

AUTHOR

       makechs was written by Johan Billing <billing@df.lth.se>.

       This manual page was written by Robert James Clay <jame@rocasa.us>, for the Debian project
       (but may be used by others).

                                           May 18, 2013                                MAKECHS(1)