native2ascii(1) Internationalization Tools native2ascii(1)NAMEnative2ascii - Creates localizable applications by converting a file
with characters in any supported character encoding to one with ASCII
and/or Unicode escapes or vice versa.
SYNOPSISnative2ascii [ inputfile ] [ outputfile ]
inputfile
The encoded file to be converted to ASCII.
outputfile
The converted ASCII file.
DESCRIPTION
The native2ascii command converts encoded files supported by the Java
Runtime Environment (JRE) 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 that
contain characters not in ISO-8859-1 character sets. The tool can also
perform the reverse conversion.
If the outputfile value is omitted, then standard output is used for
output. If, in addition, the inputfile value is omitted, then standard
input is used for input.
OPTIONS-reverse
Perform the reverse operation: Converts a file encoded in
ISO-8859-1 with Unicode escapes to a file in any character
encoding supported by the JRE.
-encoding encoding_name
Specifies the name of the character encoding to be used by the
conversion procedure. If this option is not present, then 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 JRE. See Supported Encodings at
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html
-Joption
Passes option to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), where option is
one of the options described on the reference page for the Java
application launcher. For example, -J-Xms48m sets the startup
memory to 48 MB. See java(1).
JDK 8 21 November 2013 native2ascii(1)
