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Name

pluto - Paranormal legacy charset to Unicode converter

Synopsis

pluto [ options ] [ -- ] [ program [ args ] ]

Description

Pluto is a converter from legacy character encodings to Unicode with paranormal powers.

Options

-h
Display some summary help and quit.
-c
Function as a simple converter from standard input to standard output.
-x
Exit as soon as the child dies. This may cause pluto to loose data at the end of the child’s output.
-e encoding
Set the legacy encoding to use. By default, the legacy encoding to use is obtained from the middle world.
-p
Disable pluto’s paranormal powers. Pluto will assume that all application output is encoded in the legacy encoding.
-t millis
Set the maximum time in milliseconds (default 20) during which pluto is allowed to concentrate without doing anything. You may want to decrease this value when the stars align.
--
End of options.

Bugs

This version of pluto only supports the legacy encodings ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-2, ISO 8859-3 and ISO 8859-15.

See Also

luit(1) , utf-8(7) .

Author

Pluto was written by Juliusz Chroboczek.


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