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.TH native2ascii 1 "02 Jun 2010"

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.SH "Name"
native2ascii \- Native\-to\-ASCII Converter
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Converts a file with native\-encoded characters (characters which are non\-Latin 1 and non\-Unicode) to one with Unicode\-encoded characters.
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.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\fP\f4native2ascii\fP\f2 [options] [inputfile [outputfile]]\fP
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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The Java compiler and other Java tools can only process files which contain Latin\-1 and/or Unicode\-encoded (\\udddd notation) characters. \f2native2ascii\fP converts files which contain other character encodings into files containing Latin\-1 and/or Unicode\-encoded charaters.
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If \f2outputfile\fP is omitted, standard output is used for output. If, in addition, \f2inputfile\fP is omitted, standard input is used for input.
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.SH "OPTIONS"
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\-reverse 
Perform the reverse operation: convert a file with Latin\-1 and/or Unicode encoded characters to one with native\-encoded characters.
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\-encoding encoding_name 
Specify the encoding name which is used by the conversion procedure. The default encoding is taken from System property \f2file.encoding\fP. The \f2encoding_name\fP string must be taken from the first column of the table of supported encodings in the 
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\f4Supported Encodings\fP @
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http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html document. 
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\-Joption 
Pass \f2option\fP to the Java virtual machine, where \f2option\fP is one of the options described on the reference page for the java(1). For example, \f3\-J\-Xms48m\fP sets the startup memory to 48 megabytes. 
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