CSTOCS(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation CSTOCS(1)NAMEcstocs-- charset encoding convertor for the Czech and Slovak
languages.
FORMATcstocs [options] src_encoding dst_encoding [files ...]
SYNOPSIScstocs il2 ascii < file | less
cstocs-i utf8 il2 file1 file2 file3
cstocs--help
DESCRIPTION
Cstocs is a simple conversion utility to change charset encoding of a
text. It reads either specified files or (if none specified) the
standard input, assumes that the input is encoded in "src_encoding" and
ties to reencode it into "dst_encoding". The result is written to the
standard output.
Run "cstocs" without parameters to get short help and list of available
encodings.
Characters that are not defined in "src_encoding" are passed to the
output unchanged.
If source text contains character, that is defined in "src_encoding"
but not in "dst_encoding", it can be handled several ways. For example,
character "e with caron" (symbol ecaron), and "d with caron" (symbol
dcaron) are included in the iso-8859-2 encoding, but not in the
iso-8859-1. If you will do reencoding of 8859-2 text to 8859-1, you may
want to do one of the following actions:
1. Keep it the same, option "--nofillstring".
2. Do not produce any output instead of "ecaron" symbol, option
"--null".
3. Substitute some string (possibly a space) instead of both ecaron and
dcaron, options "--fillstring".
4. Substitute a letter "d" instead of dcaron, and "e" instead of
ecaron. It is even possible to substitute string instead of symbol,
so you can replace the "AE" Latin character with string "AE" (letter
"A", and letter "E"). Or you can replace a "plusminus sign" with a
string "+/-". These substitutions are described in the accent file.
OPTIONS-i, -i.ext, --inplace.ext
Files specified will be converted in-place, using Perl "-i"
facility. Optionaly, an extension for backup copies may be
specified after dot. This parameter has to be the first one, if
specified.
--dir directory
Encoding files are taken from directory instead of the default,
which is Cz/Cstocs/enc in the Perl lib tree. The location of
encoding files can also be changed using the CSTOCSDIR environment
variable, but the --dir option has the highest priority.
--fillstring string
If source text contains character, that is defined in the
"src_encoding" but not in the "dst_encoding" nor in the accent file
(or accent file is not used), it is replaced by "string". The
default is single space.
--nofillstring
Disable changes of characters that would otherwise have fillstring
applied. This is different from "--null" because that cancels that
character out.
--null
Completely equivalent to --fillstring "".
--nochange or --noaccent
Do not use the accent file at all.
--onebyone
Use only those rules from the accent file, which rewrite one
character to one character. If this option is specified, character
"ecaron" will be rewritten to "e", but "AE" character will not be
rewritten to "AE" string.
--onebymore
Use all rules from accent file. This is the default option.
SEE ALSOCz::Cstocs(3).
AUTHOR
Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak has done the original Un*x implementation.
Jan Pazdziora, adelton@fi.muni.cz, created the Perl module version.
perl v5.20.2 2015-08-30 CSTOCS(1)
