recode - Man Page

-l,  --list[=FORMAT]

list one or all known charsets and aliases

-k,  --known=PAIRS

restrict charsets according to known PAIRS list

-h,  --header[=[LN/]NAME]

write table NAME on stdout using LN, then exit

-T,  --find-subsets

report all charsets being subset of others

-C,  --copyright

display Copyright and copying conditions

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

-v,  --verbose

explain sequence of steps and report progress

-q,  --quiet,  --silent

inhibit messages about irreversible recodings

-f,  --force

force recodings even when not reversible

-t,  --touch

touch the recoded files after replacement

-i,  -p,  --sequence=STRATEGY

ignored for backwards compatibility

-s,  --strict

use strict mappings; discard untranslatable characters

-d,  --diacritics

convert only diacritics and special characters for HTML/LaTeX/BibTeX

-S,  --source[=LN]

limit recoding to strings and comments as for LN

-c,  --colons

use colons instead of double quotes for diaeresis

-g,  --graphics

approximate IBMPC rulers by ASCII graphics

-x,  --ignore=CHARSET

ignore CHARSET while choosing a recoding path

Option -l with no FORMAT nor CHARSET list available charsets and surfaces. FORMAT is `decimal', `octal', `hexadecimal' or `full' (or one of `dohf'). Unless DEFAULT_CHARSET is set in environment, CHARSET defaults to the locale dependent encoding, determined by LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG. With -k, possible before charsets are listed for the given after CHARSET, both being tabular charsets, with PAIRS of the form `BEF1:AFT1,BEF2:AFT2,...' and BEFs and AFTs being codes are given as decimal numbers. LN is some language, it may be `c', `perl' or `po'; `c' is the default.

REQUEST is SUBREQUEST[,SUBREQUEST]...; SUBREQUEST is ENCODING[..ENCODING]... ENCODING is [CHARSET][/[SURFACE]]...; REQUEST often looks like BEFORE..AFTER, with BEFORE and AFTER being charsets.  An omitted CHARSET implies the usual charset; an omitted [/SURFACE]... means the implied surfaces for CHARSET; a / with an empty surface name means no surfaces at all.  See the manual.

Each FILE is recoded over itself, destroying the original.  If no FILE is specified, then act as a filter and recode stdin to stdout.