CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Code-Processing Tools

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is tool, as you might expect, uses many of the code conversion algorithms and routines

described earlier in this chapter. e remainder is simply fancy formatting of the output.

Now for this tool’s help page:

** jcode v3.0 (July 1, 1993) **

Written by Ken R. Lunde, Adobe Systems Incorporated

[e-mail]

Usage: jcode [-options] [infile] [outfile]

Tool description: This tool is a utility for displaying the electronic values

of Japanese characters within textfiles, and supports Shift-JIS, EUC, New-JIS,

Old-JIS, and NEC-JIS for both input and output.

Options include:

-c[DATA] Reads codes, one per line, rather than characters as input --

if DATA is specified, only that code is treated, then exits

(KUTEN codes must be prefixed with "k," and EUC codes with

"x" -- EUC, JIS, and Shift-JIS codes must be hexadecimal)

-h Displays this help page, then exits

-iCODE Forces input code to be recognized as CODE

-n[NOTATION] Output notation set to NOTATION (default is hexadecimal if this

option is not specified, if NOTATION is not specified, or if

the specified NOTATION is invalid)

-o[CODE] Output code set to CODE (default is Shift-JIS if this option

is not specified, if CODE is not specified, or if the

specified CODE is invalid)

-p[CHOICE] Pads the columns with CHOICE whereby CHOICE can be either "t"

for tabs or "s" for spaces (default is spaces if this option

is not specified, ...