piconv is perl version of iconv, 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. Each option can be in short format (-f)
or long (--from).
-f,--from from_encoding
Specifies the encoding you are converting from. Unlike iconv,
this option can be omitted. In such cases, the current locale is used.
-t,--to to_encoding
Specifies the encoding you are converting to. Unlike iconv,
this option can be omitted. In such cases, the current locale is used.
Therefore, when both -f and -t are omitted, piconv just acts
like cat.
-s,--string string
uses string 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.
-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
Same as "-C -1".
-h,--help
Show usage.
-D,--debug
Invokes debugging mode. Primarily for Encode hackers.
-S,--scheme scheme
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 decode()d then encode()d. A straight two-step
implementation.
perlio
The new perlIO layer is used. NI-S' favorite.
Like the -D option, this is also for Encode hackers.
SEE ALSO
``1'' in iconv
``3'' in locale
Encode
Encode::Supported
Encode::Alias
PerlIO
