NAME

       tcs - translate character sets

SYNOPSIS

       tcs [ -slcv ] [ -f ics ] [ -t ocs ] [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       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

EXAMPLES

       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.

SOURCE

       /sys/src/cmd/tcs

SEE ALSO

       ascii(1), rune(2), utf(6).

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