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native2ascii - Native-to-ASCII Converter
Converts a file with characters in any supported character encoding to
one with ASCII and/or Unicode escapes, or visa versa.
SYNOPSIS
native2ascii [options] [inputfile [outputfile]]
DESCRIPTION
native2ascii converts files that are encoded to any character encoding
that is supported by the Java runtime environment to files encoded in
ASCII, using Unicode escapes ("\uxxxx" notation) for all characters
that are not part of the ASCII character set. This process is required
for properties files containing characters not in ISO-8859-1 character
sets. The tool can also perform the reverse conversion.
If outputfile is omitted, standard output is used for output. If, in
addition, inputfile is omitted, standard input is used for input.
OPTIONS-reverse
Perform the reverse operation: Convert a file encoded in
ISO-8859-1 with Unicode escapes to a file in any character encod‐
ing supported by the Java runtime environment.
-encoding encoding_name
Specifies the name of the character encoding to be used by the
conversion procedure. If this option is not present, the default
character encoding (as determined by the
java.nio.charset.Charset.defaultCharset method) is used. The
encoding_name string must be the name of a character encoding
that is supported by the Java runtime environment - see the Sup‐
ported Encodings @
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encod‐
ing.doc.html document.
-Joption
Pass option to the Java virtual machine, where option is one of
the options described on the reference page for the java(1). For
example, -J-Xms48m sets the startup memory to 48 megabytes.
16 Mar 2012 native2ascii(1)
