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PICONV(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PICONV(1)

NNAAMMEE #

 piconv -- iconv(1), reinvented in perl

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   piconv [-f from_encoding] [-t to_encoding]
          [-p|--perlqq|--htmlcref|--xmlcref] [-C N|-c] [-D] [-S scheme]
          [-s string|file...]
   piconv -l
   piconv -r encoding_alias
   piconv -h

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 ppiiccoonnvv is perl version of iiccoonnvv, a character encoding converter widely
 available for various Unixen today.  This script was primarily a
 technology demonstrator for Perl 5.8.0, but you can use piconv in the
 place of iconv for virtually any case.

 piconv converts the character encoding of either STDIN or files specified
 in the argument and prints out to STDOUT.

 Here is the list of options.  Some options can be in short format (-f) or
 long (--from) one.

 -f,--from _f_r_o_m___e_n_c_o_d_i_n_g
     Specifies the encoding you are converting from.  Unlike iiccoonnvv, this
     option can be omitted.  In such cases, the current locale is used.

 -t,--to _t_o___e_n_c_o_d_i_n_g
     Specifies the encoding you are converting to.  Unlike iiccoonnvv, this
     option can be omitted.  In such cases, the current locale is used.

     Therefore, when both -f and -t are omitted, ppiiccoonnvv just acts like
     ccaatt.

 -s,--string _s_t_r_i_n_g
     uses _s_t_r_i_n_g instead of file for the source of text.

 -l,--list
     Lists all available encodings, one per line, in case-insensitive
     order.  Note that only the canonical names are listed; many aliases
     exist.  For example, the names are case-insensitive, and many
     standard and common aliases work, such as "latin1" for "ISO-8859-1",
     or "ibm850" instead of "cp850", or "winlatin1" for "cp1252".  See
     Encode::Supported for a full discussion.

 -r,--resolve _e_n_c_o_d_i_n_g___a_l_i_a_s
     Resolve _e_n_c_o_d_i_n_g___a_l_i_a_s to Encode canonical encoding name.

 -C,--check _N
     Check the validity of the stream if _N = 1.  When _N = -1, something
     interesting happens when it encounters an invalid character.

 -c  Same as "-C 1".

 -p,--perlqq
     Transliterate characters missing in encoding to \x{HHHH} where HHHH
     is the hexadecimal Unicode code point.

 --htmlcref
     Transliterate characters missing in encoding to &#NNN; where NNN is
     the decimal Unicode code point.

 --xmlcref
     Transliterate characters missing in encoding to &#xHHHH; where HHHH
     is the hexadecimal Unicode code point.

 -h,--help
     Show usage.

 -D,--debug
     Invokes debugging mode.  Primarily for Encode hackers.

 -S,--scheme _s_c_h_e_m_e
     Selects which scheme is to be used for conversion.  Available schemes
     are as follows:

     from_to
         Uses Encode::from_to for conversion.  This is the default.

     decode_encode
         Input strings are ddeeccooddee(())d then eennccooddee(())d.  A straight two-step
         implementation.

     perlio
         The new perlIO layer is used.  NI-S' favorite.

         You should use this option if you are using UTF-16 and others
         which linefeed is not $/.

     Like the _-_D option, this is also for Encode hackers.

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