umap (1) Linux Manual Page

umap – map between different character sets

Synopsis

 umap [options] <before>:<after>

Description

The umap script acts as a filter between different encodings and character sets.

The following options are recognized:

–list [charset]

Without argument list all character sets recognized. With a specified character set list the mapping between this set and Unicode.

–strict

Do the stict mapping between the character sets. The default is to not translate unmapped character. With –stict we will remove unmapped characters or use the default specified with –def8 or –def16.

–def8=<charcode>

Set the default 8-bit code for unmapped chars.

–def16=<charcode>

Set the default 16-bit code for unmapped chars.

–verbose

Generate more verbose output.

–version

Print the version number of this program and quit.

–help

Print the usage message.

See Also

Unicode::String, Unicode::Map8, recode(1)

Copyright

Copyright 1998 Gisle Aas.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.