NAME

       paracode - command line Unicode conversion tool

SYNOPSIS

       paracode [-ttables] string

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents the paracode command.

       paracode exploits the full power of the Unicode standard to convert the text into visually
       similar stream of glyphs, while using completely different codepoints.  It is an excellent
       didactic tool demonstrating the principles and advanced use of the Unicode standard.

       paracode  is  a  command  line  tool  working as a filter, reading standard input in UTF-8
       encoding and writing to standard output.

OPTIONS

       -ttables
              --tables

              Use given list of conversion tables, separated by a plus sign.

              Special name 'all' selects all the tables.

              Note that selecting 'other', 'cyrillic_plus'  and  'cherokee'  tables  (and  'all')
              makes use of rather esoteric characters, and not all fonts contain them.

              Special table 'mirror' uses quite different character substitution, is not selected
              automatically with 'all' and does not work well with anything  except  plain  ascii
              alphabetical characters.

              Example:

              paracode -t cyrillic+greek+cherokee

              paracode -t cherokee  <input >output

              paracode -r -t mirror  <input >output

              Possible tables are:

              cyrillic

              cyrillic_plus

              greek

              other

              cherokee

              all

       -r

              Display text in reverse order after conversion, best used together with -t mirror.

SEE ALSO

       iconv(1)

AUTHOR

       Radovan Garabík <garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>

                                            2005-04-16                                PARACODE(1)