1JFBTERM(1)                  General Commands Manual                 JFBTERM(1)
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NAME

6       jfbterm  -  program  to  print  several  character  sets on framebuffer
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SYNOPSIS

10       jfbterm [options]
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DESCRIPTION

13       This manual page documents briefly the jfbterm command.
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15       jfbterm is a program that  prints  various  encodings  such  as  UTF-8,
16       ISO-8859-*,  EUC-*,  and  so  on, on Linux framebuffer device, like KON
17       that prints on VGA device.  It  supports  ISO-2022-compliant  character
18       sets,  encodings  which  consist  from  such character sets, UTF-8, and
19       encodings which iconv(3) can convert from/to UTF-8.  In GNU  libc  sys‐
20       tems,  all  encodings which are available for iconv(3) meet this condi‐
21       tion and are available.
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23       This supports fullwidth characters (which occupies  two  columns,  like
24       CJK  Ideogram,  Hiragana, Katakana, and Hangul).  However, this doesn't
25       support combining characters nor BIDI.
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OPTIONS

28       This program follows the usual  GNU  command  line  syntax,  with  long
29       options  starting  with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary of options is
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32       -h, --help
33              Show summary of current configuration.
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35       -e, --exec, --shell
36              Specify a program that run in jfbterm.  Default  is  $SHELL  (or
37              /bin/sh).   Rest  of  arguments  will be passed to the specified
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40       -f, --config
41              Specify  a  pathname  of  the  configuration  file.  Default  is
42              /etc/jfbterm.conf.
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44       -c, --encoding, --charmap
45              Specify  the  encoding.   The format is same as encoding line of
46              jfbterm.conf(5) file.
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48              When the given string is "locale" (the first format), the encod‐
49              ing specified by LC_CTYPE locale is adopted.
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51              When  the  given string doesn't contain `,' (the second format),
52              the string is assumed as an encoding  name.   A  valid  encoding
53              name  is  either a name defined in encoding.encodingName line in
54              jfbterm.conf(5) or  a  name  which  is  valid  for  iconv(1)  or
55              iconv_open(3).
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57              When  the  given  string  contains a `,' (the third format), the
58              string  is  assumed  to  have  GL,GR,G0,G1,G2,G3  format.    See
59              jfbterm.conf(5) for detail.
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61       -r, --reset
62              Output  ISO-2022  initialize  sequence  to  tty. You can specify
63              codeset name as optional  argument  like:  --reset=encodingName.
64              Default is locale's codeset.
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66       -q, --quiet
67              Don't print out messages.
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NOTES

70       Since  version 0.3.14, default encoding has been changed from EUC-JP to
71       encoding for locale.  To make it enable to display EUC-JP, run
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75            $ export LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
76            $ jfbterm -r
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78       if you have already invoked jfbterm and are on it.   If  you  have  not
79       invoked  jfbterm  and  want  to invoke it now, set LANG variable before
80       invoking jfbterm.
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SEE ALSO

83       jfbterm.conf(5).
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AUTHOR

86       This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>.
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90                                 Aug 30, 2003                       JFBTERM(1)