# man > native2ascii(1)

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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).

JDK 8                                     21 November 2013                           [_native2ascii_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/native2ascii/1/markdown)