native2ascii(1)                                                native2ascii(1)



NAME
       native2ascii - native to ASCI converter

SYNOPSIS
       native2ascii [ -encoding encodingname] [ -reverse ] [ -J  option ]
            [ inputfile [outputfile]

DESCRIPTION
       The  javac(1)  compiler and other Java(tm) tools can only process files
       that contain Latin-1 or Unicode-encoded (\udddd  notation)  characters.
       The  native2ascii  command  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.   If
       inputfile is also omitted, standard input is used for input.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

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

              http:/java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/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  charac-
              ters.

       -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 mem-
              ory to 48 megabytes. It is a common convention for  -J  to  pass
              options to the underlying virtual machine.

SEE ALSO
       javac(1)


       Supported Encodings @
              http:/java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html



                                 14 July 2000                  native2ascii(1)