bsdconv

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "\n# Documentation \u0026 Support\nhttp://www.slideshare.net/buganini/bsdconv\n\nhttp://www.slideshare.net/Buganini/journey-of-bsdconv\n\nAPI Reference: http://buganini.github.io/bsdconv/\n\nUse bsdconv-man to show manual page for each module\n\nIRC: irc://irc.freenode.net#bsdconv\n\n# Compilation \u0026 Installation\n```\nmake PREFIX=${prefix} # default to /usr/local\nsudo make install PREFIX=${prefix} # default to /usr/local\nsudo ldconfig ${prefix}/lib # Linux\nsudo ldconfig -m ${prefix}/lib # FreeBSD\n```\n\n# Add codec alias\n```\nUpdate modules/{from,inter,to}/alias\nmake alias\n```\n\n# Example\n\nConvert traditional chinese big5 to simplified chinese utf-8\n```\nbsdconv big5:zhcn:utf-8 in.txt \u003e out.txt\nbsdconv big5:zhcn:utf-8 -i in.txt #inplace\n```\n\nConvert traditional chinese utf-8 to simplified chinese GB2312 with transliteration\n```\nbsdconv utf-8:zhcn:cp936,cp936-trans in.txt \u003e out.txt\n```\n\nConvert simplified chinese to traditional chinese\n\n```\nbsdconv utf-8:zhtw:zhtw-words:utf-8\n```\n\nAnd ignoring whitespaces mixed in words\n```\nbsdconv utf-8:whitespace-derail:zhtw:zhtw-words:whitespace-rerail:utf-8\n```\n\nConvert big5 data, traditional chinese to simplified chinese,\nCRLF/CR/LF to CRLF, to big5 data, translate simplified chinese words, which are\nnot in big5, to HTML entities, and uppercase the ascii characters.\n```\nbsdconv big5:zhcn:win:upper:big5,htmlentity in.txt \u003e out.txt\n```\n\nCounting character width\n```\necho -n \"a\uff41\" | bsdconv utf-8:width:null\nFULL: 1\nHALF: 1\n\necho -n \"a\uff41\u02c7\" | bsdconv utf-8:width:null\nFULL: 1\nHALF: 1\nAMBI: 1\n```\n\nVery useful for migrating MySQL DB from Big5 to UTF-8\n```\nbsdconv htmlentity,big5-5c,big5:utf-8 in.sql \u003e out.sql\n```\n\nRecover from mis-decoding/encoding (mistreated big5 as iso-8859-1 and converted to utf-8)\n```\nbsdconv \u0027utf-8:iso-8859-1|big5:utf-8\u0027\n```\n\nDecode escaped data (byte/unicode mixed) like %u9644%20\n```\nbsdconv \u0027escape,byte:unicode,byte|skip,ascii:utf-8\u0027\n```\n\nGenerate string for fuzzy comparison\n```\necho \u00bc\u210c\u0103\u01c5\u24d0\u2079\u7063\u6e7e\u30c9\ud87e\ude0a\u9b12\u00e6\u00df | bsdconv UTF-8:ZH-FUZZY-TW:KANA-PHONETIC:",
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