native2ascii(1) Internationalization Tools native2ascii(1)
NAME
native2ascii - Creates localizable applications by converting a file with characters in
any supported character encoding to one with ASCII and/or Unicode escapes or vice versa.
SYNOPSIS
native2ascii [ inputfile ] [ outputfile ]
inputfile
The encoded file to be converted to ASCII.
outputfile
The converted ASCII file.
DESCRIPTION
The native2ascii command converts encoded files supported by the Java Runtime Environment
(JRE) to files encoded in ASCII, using Unicode escapes (\uxxxx) notation for all
characters that are not part of the ASCII character set. This process is required for
properties files that contain characters not in ISO-8859-1 character sets. The tool can
also perform the reverse conversion.
If the outputfile value is omitted, then standard output is used for output. If, in
addition, the inputfile value is omitted, then standard input is used for input.
OPTIONS
-reverse
Perform the reverse operation: Converts a file encoded in ISO-8859-1 with Unicode
escapes to a file in any character encoding supported by the JRE.
-encoding encoding_name
Specifies the name of the character encoding to be used by the conversion
procedure. If this option is not present, then the default character encoding (as
determined by the java.nio.charset.Charset.defaultCharset method) is used. The
encoding_name string must be the name of a character encoding that is supported by
the JRE. See Supported Encodings at
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html
-Joption
Passes option to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), where option is one of the options
described on the reference page for the Java application launcher. For example, -J-
Xms48m sets the startup memory to 48 MB. See java(1).
JDK 8 21 November 2013 native2ascii(1)
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