NAME

       tran - transcribe between character scripts

SYNOPSIS

       tran <input

       echo Hello world | tran script

DESCRIPTION

       tran lets you convert between Latin and a number of other character scripts.  It works as a filter,
       reading standard input and writing to the standard output.

       Please specify the target script as the argument.  If none is given, the default is latin.  Specify
       "list" to get the list of supported scripts.

OPTIONS

       -d, --debug
           marks characters that haven't been touched in color.  The output must go to a terminal, "less -R" or
           something that can understand ANSI colors.

CAVEATS

       There is currently no triangulation -- to go between two scripts other than latin you need to convert to
       latin first.

       This especially matters for ascii: to convert, eg, cyrillic text, you need to use a pipe: tran|tran
       ascii.

       The ascii conversion, like any other, leaves characters it doesn't have data for intact, leading to non-
       ASCII output.  This might be what you want if you need to just drop diacritics and expand digraphs, but
       if you're after pure 7-bit text, use "tran ascii|perl -CIO -pe 'tr /\x1-\x7e/?/c'" (/usr/bin/tr works on
       bytes not characters).

       Not all of your recipients may have all required fonts, especially for Plane 1 scripts.  Such support is
       especially bad on old terminals that use bitmap fonts, such as xterm, text-mode Linux or pre-Windows 10
       console.

BUGS

       Ancient (ie, non-Unicode) charsets are not supported at all.  tran will obliviously write UTF-8 even when
       inappropriate.

       This tool is pretty slow, especially on startup.  If this is a problem for anyone, please holler -- I did
       not optimize it at all.

AUTHOR

       Adam Borowski (kilobyte@angband.pl)