makechs(1) A program that can be used to create additional translation tables for use by JamNNTPd.

SYNOPSIS

makechs <fromchrs> <destchrs> <frommap> [<destmap>]

DESCRIPTION

The *.chs files in the "xlat" and "unicode/xlat" directories are character set translation tables in the GoldED+ format. The files were created from mappings files found at this URL:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/
Fallback sequences for characters that do not exist in the target charset were taken from Markus Kuhn's transliteration tables found at the URL below:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/transtab.tar.gz
If you want to create additional translation tables, you can easily do so using this utility.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below:
<fromchrs>
The fidonet name of the charset you want to convert from.
<destchrs>
The fidonet name of the charset you want to convert to.
<frommap>
The Unicode mappings file for the source charset.
<destmap>
The Unicode mappings file for the destination charset. If you don't supply a mappings file, makechs will instead create a chs file that converts the source charset to utf-8.
The output of makechs is written to the console and needs to be redirected to the desired file.

AUTHOR

makechs was written by Johan Billing <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Robert James Clay <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).