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Chapter 9: Information Processing Techniques
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I nd it intriguing that source code that I haven’t touched in 15 years is still useful
today.
ree of these tools were written in ANSI C, and are portable on compilers that conform
to this standard. is means that their source code, without any modications, should
compile on multiple platforms, which has been conrmed by their many users. Each of
these three tools displays its help page by using the
-h option on the command line. ese
same help pages are listed in the following sections, and are provided in order to illustrate
the full potential of the tools’ functionality.
JConv—Code Conversion Tool
e most basic Japanese text-processing requirement is a tool that converts Japanese text
from one encoding to another. is is most important when moving Japanese text from
one platform to another, and when receiving email messages or news articles. All in all,
this is a general workhorse tool. I use it oen.
is tool, called JConv, implements the routines for converting from one Japanese encod-
ing to another. e main features of JConv are as follows:
Supports the JIS X 0208:1997 character set•
Handles ISO-2022-JP, Shi-JIS, and EUC-JP encodings•
Lists code specications for Japanese encoding methods•
Filters half-width katakana by converting them to their full-width counterparts•
Repairs damaged ISO-2022-JP• –encoded les ...