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NAME

6       map - An utility to map texts from and to unicode
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SYNOPSIS

9        map - recode from and to various character sets.
10              Reads from STDIN, writes to STDOUT.
11        usage: map [--from cset] [--to cset] < input.txt > output.txt
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13        from s  Encoding of input files (default "ISO-8859-1")
14        list    Lists available character sets and their alias names.
15        to   s  Encoding of output files (default "ISO-8859-1")
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DESCRIPTION

18       Maps text from one character set representation to another. This work
19       is actually long time very well done by "recode", but unfortunately
20       recode does not support Unicode and eastern asia character sets. But,
21       if you have pure 8 bit things to do, recode will still be the best
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24       Examples:
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26       Conversion from ISO-8859-1 to Unicode:
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28        map --to unicode < iso-8859-1.txt > unicode.txt
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30       Conversion from GB2312 to CP936:
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32        map --from cp936 --to GB2312 < gb2312.txt > cp936.txt
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34       Conversion from CP850 to Unicode:
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36        map --from cp850 --to unicode < cp850.txt > unicode.txt
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SEE ALSO

39       recode(1), Unicode::Map(3), Unicode::Map8(3), Unicode::String(3)
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AUTHOR

42       Martin Schwartz <martin@nacho.de>.
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