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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)