* [1]NAME
     * [2]SYNOPSIS
     * [3]DESCRIPTION
          + [4]Options
          + [5]Conversion specifiers
          + [6]Flag specifiers
          + [7]Acceptable languages
     * [8]AUTHOR
     * [9]DISCLAIMER etc.
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                                           NAME

   mbconv - Character encoding scheme converter
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                                         SYNOPSIS

  mbconv [options]  ...
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                                       DESCRIPTION

   This is an application of a library to handle multiple octets character string:

  [10]http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/libiso2mb.shtml

   mainly written for debugging of the library.

   It reads octet by octet from files given on command line (or standard input if no
   file is specified), converts character encoding scheme as specified by command
   line options (described below), and output to standard output (or a file
   specified by -t option or -a option).
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Options

   -?, -h, --help
          display summary of options and exits.

   -a file, --append-to=file
          output is appended to file.

   -c converters, --convert-to=converters
          specifies character encoding conversion. converters must be comma
          separated list of words described in [11]Conversion specifiers.

   -f flags, --flag=flags
          specifies flags to change behavior of conversion. flags must be comma
          separated list of words describe in [12]Flag specifiers.

   -i, --input
          succeeding options apply to input stream.

   -m string, --mime-charset=string
          mime encoding conforming to RFC2047 is performed.  is used as
          charset name.

   -n, --line-number
          line number (>= 1) is inserted to beginning of each line.

   -o, --output
          succeeding options apply to output stream.

   -t file, --to=file
          output to file (truncated).

   -w, --width
          output width of each line.

   -cs , --charset=string
          specifies charset name. Some language specifications are also accepted as
          well as MIME charset names, which are used to restrict candidates of
          encoding scheme of input stream. Acceptable languages are listed in
          [13]Acceptable languages.

   --cname=canonical-name=charset-names
          specifies canonical name of non-standard charset name. charset names must
          be comma separated list of charset names.

   --format=string
          specifies output format

   --which
          output charset name of each input stream to stderr, in the form

          file name: charset name

          if two or more files are specifed on the command line, or

          charset name

          otherwise.
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Conversion specifiers

   Note: for output stream, converter setup is automatically performed based on
   charset. So in most cases, yo need not to specify converters explicitly.

   b, cn-big5
          converted to Big Five,

   c
          converted to ISO-2022-CN,

   j, a0
          converted in such a way that designate to G0 and invoked to GL

   k
          converted to ISO-2022-KR,

   s, sjis, shift_jis
          converted to Shift_JIS,

   b2c, big5-to-cns
          Big Five converted to CNS 11643,

   i2u, iso-to-ucs
          converted to UTF-8,

   u2b, ucs-to-big5
          UTF-8 converted to Big Five or others,

   u2c, ucs-to-cn
          UTF-8 converted to CNS 11643 or others,

   u2j, ucs-to-ja
          UTF-8 converted to JIS X 0208 or others,

   u2k, ucs-to-kr
          UTF-8 converted to KS X 1001 or others,

   u2gb, ucs-to-gb
          UTF-8 converted to GB2312 or others,

   misc
          UTF-8 converted to one of koi8-r, koi8-u, windows-1250, ..., or
          windows-1258,

   ascii
          domestic ASCII converted to US-ASCII,

   cn-gb
          converted to CN-GB,

   euc-jp
          converted to EUC-jp,

   euc-kr
          converted to EUC-kr,

   euc-tw
          converted to EUC-tw,

   charset
          converted appropriately according to the charset bound to the internal
          automaton,

   ms-latin1
          Unicode characters of code point between 0x80 and 0x9F (both inclusive)
          are converted to other Unicode characters as if they are characters of
          those code point in Microsoft Windows Codepage 1252,

   ucs-to-johab
          converted to JOHAB.

   cn-gb-isoir165
          converted to CN-GB-ISOIR165.
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Flag specifiers

   use-0x28-for-94x94inG0, 28
          use ``1/11 2/4 2/8 F'' instead of ``1/11 2/4 F'' to designate charsets
          with final octet 4/0, 4/1, or 4/2 to G0,

   ac, ascii-at-control
          escape sequence ``1/11 2/8 4/2'' is output before every control character,

   uc, check-utf-8
          check overlong encoding of UTF-8,

   nossl, ignore-7bit-single-shift
          escape sequence for 7 bit single shift is ignored.
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Acceptable languages

   The following words may be given instead of MIME charset name for input stream.
   In that case, coding scheme is automatically detected (hopefully) among
   succeeding ones.

   c, cn, china, chinese
          cn-gb, cn-big5, utf-8, or x-euc-tw.

   j, ja, jp, japan, japanese
          euc-jp, shift_jis, or utf-8.

   k, ko, kr, korea, korean
          euc-kr, x-johab, utf-8, or x-unified-hangul.

   cjk
          iso-8859-1, cn-gb, cn-big5, x-euc-tw, euc-jp, shift_jis, euc-kr, x-johab,
          x-unified-hangul, or utf-8.
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                                          AUTHOR

   Kiyokazu SUTO 
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                                     DISCLAIMER etc.

   This program is distributed with absolutely no warranty.

   Anyone can use, modify, and re-distibute this program without any restriction.

References

   1. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#NAME
   2. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#SYNOPSIS
   3. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#DESCRIPTION
   4. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#Options
   5. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#Conversion_specifiers
   6. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#Flag_specifiers
   7. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#Acceptable_languages
   8. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#AUTHOR
   9. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#DISCLAIMER_etc_
  10. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/libiso2mb.shtml
  11. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#Conversion_specifiers
  12. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#Flag_specifiers
  13. http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/mbconv.html#Acceptable_languages
  14. mailto:suto@ks-and-ks.ne.jp