makechs

makechs <fromchrs> <destchrs> <frommap> [<destmap>]

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.

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.

jamnntpd(1).

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).