NAME

       gauche-cesconv - convert text from one character encoding scheme to another

SYNOPSIS

       gauche-cesconv [-h] [-f encoding] [-t encoding] [-o outfile] [infile]

DESCRIPTION

       The gauche-cesconv command is a program to convert text from one character encoding scheme
       (CES) to another, using Gauche's character conversion module.  Hence the supported
       character sets are the same as Gauche's.  See the info document of Gauche for more
       details.

       There are other commands that provide the same functionality and more, such as iconv(1) or
       nkf(1), but they are not universally available by default.  This command is provided for
       Gauche's external packages to ease the installation and configuration process; for those
       packages, it is certain that gauche-cesconv is available, so they don't need to check
       availability of iconv etc.

       When infile is omitted, the text is read from standard input.

OPTIONS

       -f, --from-code=encoding
           Selects input encoding. Can be ´*JP´ to guess the character encoding from japanese
           text, among either ISO2022-JP(-1,2,3), EUCJP, SHIFT_JIS or UTF-8.  If omitted,
           gauche´s native CES is used.

       -h, --help
           Show summary of options.

       -o, --output=outfile
           Place output in file outfile. If omitted the converted text is written to standard
           output.

       -t, --to-code=encoding
           Selects output encoding. (see also --from-code)

DIAGNOSTICS

       gauche-cesconv exits with status 0 on success.

SEE ALSO

       gauche-package(1), iconv(1)

       The program will be documented fully by the Gauche Developers´ Reference available via the
       info(1) system.

AUTHORS

       Shiro Kawai <shiro@acm.org>
           Author.

       Jens Thiele <karme@karme.de>
           Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2010 Jens Thiele

       Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any
       medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. This
       file is offered as-is, without any warranty.