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native2ascii(1)                                                                              native2ascii(1)



NAME
       native2ascii - native to ASCII converter

SYNOPSIS
       native2ascii [ options ]
            [ inputfile [outputfile]]

DESCRIPTION
       The Java compiler and other Java tools can only process files that contain Latin-1 or Unicode-encoded
       (\udddd notation) characters.  native2ascii converts files that contain other character encoding into
       files containing Latin-1 or Unicode-encoded charaters.

       If  outputfile is omitted, standard output is used for output.  In addition, if inputfile is omitted,
       standard input is used for input.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -encoding encoding_name
            Specifies the encoding name that is used by the conversion procedure.  The default  encoding  is
            taken  from  system property file.encoding.  The encoding_name string must be one taken from the
            first column of the table of supported encodings in the Supported Encodings document:

            http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html

       -reverse
            Performs the reverse operation: converts a file with Latin-1 or  Unicode-encoded  characters  to
            one with native-encoded characters.

       -Joption       Pass  option to the Java virtual machine, where option is one of the options described
                      on the man page for the java application launcher,  java(1).  For  example,  -J-Xms48m
                      sets  the  startup  memory  to  48 megabytes. It is a common convention for -J to pass
                      options to the underlying virtual machine.






                                                 22 Jun 2004                                 native2ascii(1)