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 NAME     
 |  |  |  | tcs – translate character sets 
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 SYNOPSIS     
 |  |  |  | tcs [ −slcv ] [ −f ics ] [ −t ocs ] [ file ... ] 
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 DESCRIPTION     
 |  |  |  | Tcs interprets the named file(s) (standard input default) as a
    stream of characters from the ics character set or format, converts
    them to runes, and then converts them into a stream of characters
    from the ocs character set or format on the standard output. The
    default value for ics and ocs is utf, the UTF encoding described
    in utf(7). The −l option lists
    the character sets known to tcs. Processing continues in the face
    of conversion errors (the −s option prevents reporting of these
    errors). The −c option forces the output to contain only correctly
    converted characters; otherwise, 0x80 characters will be substituted
    for UTF encoding errors and 0xFFFD characters will substituted
    for unknown characters. 
    
    
    The −v option generates various diagnostic and summary information
    on standard error, or makes the −l output more verbose. 
    
    
    Tcs recognizes an ever changing list of character sets. In particular,
    it supports a variety of Russian and Japanese encodings. Some
    of the supported encodings are utf       The Plan 9 UTF encoding, known by ISO as UTF-8
 utf1      The deprecated original UTF encoding from ISO 10646
 ascii      7-bit ASCII
 8859−1     Latin-1 (Central European)
 8859−2     Latin-2 (Czech .. Slovak)
 8859−3     Latin-3 (Dutch .. Turkish)
 8859−4     Latin-4 (Scandinavian)
 8859−5     Part 5 (Cyrillic)
 8859−6     Part 6 (Arabic)
 8859−7     Part 7 (Greek)
 8859−8     Part 8 (Hebrew)
 8859−9     Latin-5 (Finnish .. Portuguese)
 koi8      KOI-8 (GOST 19769-74)
 jis−kanji   ISO 2022-JP
 ujis      EUC-JX: JIS 0208
 ms−kanji   Microsoft, or Shift-JIS
 jis       (from only) guesses between ISO 2022-JP, EUC or Shift-Jis
 gb        Chinese national standard (GB2312-80)
 big5      Big 5 (HKU version)
 unicode    Unicode Standard 1.0
 tis       Thai character set plus ASCII (TIS 620-1986)
 msdos      IBM PC: CP 437
 atari      Atari-ST character set
 
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 EXAMPLES     
 |  |  |  | tcs −f 8859−1 
 tcs −s −f jis|  |  |  | Convert 8859-1 (Latin-1) characters into UTF format. 
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 tcs −lv|  |  |  | Convert characters encoded in one of several shift JIS encodings
        into UTF format. Unknown Kanji will be converted into 0xFFFD characters. 
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 |  |  |  | Print an up to date list of the supported character sets. 
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