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## 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 (**\u**_xxxx_) 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>

### -J_option_
              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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/java/1/markdown).



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