piconv
iconv(1), reinvented in perl
see also :
iconv - locale
Synopsis
piconv [-f from_encoding] [-t to_encoding] [-s string] [files...]
piconv -l
piconv [-C N|-c|-p]
piconv -S scheme ...
piconv -r encoding
piconv -D ...
piconv -h
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description
piconv
is perl version of iconv, a character encoding
converter widely available for various Unixen today. This
script was primarily a technology demonstrator for Perl
5.8.0, but you can use piconv in the place of iconv for
virtually any case.
piconv converts
the character encoding of either STDIN or
files specified in the argument and prints out to
STDOUT .
Here is the
list of options. Each option can be in short format
(-f) or long (--from).
-f,--from from_encoding
Specifies the encoding you are
converting from. Unlike iconv, this option can be
omitted. In such cases, the current locale is used.
-t,--to
to_encoding
Specifies the encoding you are
converting to. Unlike iconv, this option can be
omitted. In such cases, the current locale is used.
Therefore, when
both -f and -t are omitted, piconv just
acts like cat.
-s,--string
string
uses string instead of
file for the source of text.
-l,--list
Lists all available encodings,
one per line, in case-insensitive order. Note that only the
canonical names are listed; many aliases exist. For example,
the names are case-insensitive, and many standard and common
aliases work, such as "latin1" for "
ISO-8859-1 ", or
"ibm850" instead of "cp850", or
"winlatin1" for "cp1252". See
Encode::Supported for a full discussion.
-C,--check
N
Check the validity of the
stream if N = 1. When N = -1, something
interesting happens when it encounters an invalid
character.
-p,--perlqq
--htmlcref
--xmlcref
Applies PERLQQ ,
HTMLCREF , XMLCREF ,
respectively. Try
piconv -f utf8 -t ascii --perlqq
To see what it
does.
-h,--help
Show usage.
-D,--debug
Invokes debugging mode.
Primarily for Encode hackers.
-S,--scheme
scheme
Selects which scheme is to be
used for conversion. Available schemes are as follows:
from_to
Uses Encode::from_to for
conversion. This is the default.
decode_encode
Input strings are
decode()d then encode()d. A straight two-step
implementation.
perlio
The new perlIO layer is used.
NI-S ’ favorite.
You should use
this option if you are using UTF-16 and
others which linefeed is not $/.
Like the
-D option, this is also for Encode hackers.
see also
iconv
locale Encode Encode::Supported Encode::Alias
PerlIO