NAME

       cstocs -- charset encoding convertor for the Czech and Slovak languages.

FORMAT

               cstocs [options] src_encoding dst_encoding [files ...]

SYNOPSIS

               cstocs il2 ascii < file | less
               cstocs -i utf8 il2 file1 file2 file3
               cstocs --help

DESCRIPTION

       Cstocs is a simple conversion utility to change charset encoding of a text. It reads
       either specified files or (if none specified) the standard input, assumes that the input
       is encoded in "src_encoding" and ties to reencode it into "dst_encoding". The result is
       written to the standard output.

       Run "cstocs" without parameters to get short help and list of available encodings.

       Characters that are not defined in "src_encoding" are passed to the output unchanged.

       If source text contains character, that is defined in "src_encoding" but not in
       "dst_encoding", it can be handled several ways. For example, character "e with caron"
       (symbol ecaron), and "d with caron" (symbol dcaron)  are included in the iso-8859-2
       encoding, but not in the iso-8859-1. If you will do reencoding of 8859-2 text to 8859-1,
       you may want to do one of the following actions:

       1. Keep it the same, option "--nofillstring".

       2. Do not produce any output instead of "ecaron" symbol, option "--null".

       3. Substitute some string (possibly a space) instead of both ecaron and dcaron, options
          "--fillstring".

       4. Substitute a letter "d" instead of dcaron, and "e" instead of ecaron.  It is even
          possible to substitute string instead of symbol, so you can replace the "AE" Latin
          character with string "AE" (letter "A", and letter "E").  Or you can replace a
          "plusminus sign" with a string "+/-".  These substitutions are described in the accent
          file.

OPTIONS

       -i, -i.ext, --inplace.ext
           Files specified will be converted in-place, using Perl "-i" facility.  Optionaly, an
           extension for backup copies may be specified after dot.  This parameter has to be the
           first one, if specified.

       --dir directory
           Encoding files are taken from directory instead of the default, which is Cz/Cstocs/enc
           in the Perl lib tree. The location of encoding files can also be changed using the
           CSTOCSDIR environment variable, but the --dir option has the highest priority.

       --fillstring string
           If source text contains character, that is defined in the "src_encoding" but not in
           the "dst_encoding" nor in the accent file (or accent file is not used), it is replaced
           by "string".  The default is single space.

       --nofillstring
           Disable changes of characters that would otherwise have fillstring applied. This is
           different from "--null" because that cancels that character out.

       --null
           Completely equivalent to --fillstring "".

       --nochange or --noaccent
           Do not use the accent file at all.

       --onebyone
           Use only those rules from the accent file, which rewrite one character to one
           character. If this option is specified, character "ecaron" will be rewritten to "e",
           but "AE" character will not be rewritten to "AE" string.

       --onebymore
           Use all rules from accent file. This is the default option.

SEE ALSO

       Cz::Cstocs(3).

AUTHOR

       Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak has done the original Un*x implementation.

       Jan Pazdziora created the Perl module version.