It converts input kanji code to designated kanji code
such as 7-bit JIS, MS-kanji (shifted-JIS), utf-8 or EUC.
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-One of the most unique facicility of
+One of the most unique faculty of
.B nkf
-is the guess of the input kanji code.
+is the guess of the input kanji encodings.
It currently recognizes 7-bit JIS, MS-kanji (shifted-JIS),utf-8 and EUC.
-So users needn't the input kanji code specification.
+So users needn't give the input kanji code specification.
-By default X0201 kana is converted into X0208 kana. For
+By default, X0201 kana is converted into X0208 kana. For
X0201 kana, SO/SI, SSO and
ESC-(-I methods are supported. For automatic code detection, nkf assumes
no X0201 kana in MS-Kanji. To accept X0201 in MS-Kanji, use \-X, \-x or
\-S.
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-Options are bellow:
+Options are shown below:
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.B \-j
output 7-bit JIS code.
-This is a default.
+This is default.
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.B \-s
output MS-kanji (shifted-JIS) code.
output UTF-8 (Unicode 8bit form).
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.B \-S
-Assume MS-Kanji and X0201 kana input. It also accpet JIS.
+Assume MS-Kanji and X0201 kana input. It also accepts JIS.
AT&T EUC is recognized as X0201 kana. Without \-x flag,
X0201 kana is converted into X0208.
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.B \-J
Assume JIS input. It also accepts Japanese EUC.
-This is the default. This flag does not excludde MS-Kanji.
+This is the default. This flag does not exclude MS-Kanji.
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.B \-E
-Assume AT&T EUC input. It also accpet JIS.
+Assume AT&T EUC input. It also accepts JIS.
Same as \-J.
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.B \-B
-Assume broken JIS-Kanji, which lost ESC. Usefull when your site is
+Assume broken JIS-Kanji input, which lost ESC. Useful when your site is
using old B-News Nihongo patch. \-B1 allows any char after ESC-( or
ESC-$. \-B2 forces ASCII after NL.
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.B \-m
MIME ISO-2022-JP/ISO8859-1 decode. (default) To see ISO8859-1 (Latin-1)
-\-l is necessary. \-mN does loose encoding. It allows line break in the
-middle of the basr64 encoding.
+\-l is necessary. \-mN is for loose encoding. It allows line break in the
+middle of the base64 encoding.
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.B \-mB
Decode MIME base64 encoded stream. Remove header or other part before
conversion.
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.B \-mQ
-Decode MIME quoted stream. '_' in quoted is converted to space.
+Decode MIME quoted stream. '_' in quoted stream is converted to space.
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.B \-m0
No MIME decode.
.BI \-f n
Folding on
.BI n
-length in a line. Default 60. \-f40-0 forces 0 margin folding.
+length in a line. Default is 60. \-f40-0 forces 0 margin folding.
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.B \-X
Allow X0201 kana in MS-Kanji.
-X0201 is converted into X0208 by default.
+X0201 is converted into X0208 Kana by default.
This is default in MSDOS.
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.B \-x
ASCII space. \-Z2 converts X0208 kankaku to two ASCII spaces.
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.B \-Z3
-Replacing "><&" into '>', '<', '"', '&' as in HTML.
+Replacing >,<,",& into '>', '<', '"', '&' as in HTML.
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.B \-I
-Replacing Non iso-2022-jp char into the strage geta character.
+Replacing non iso-2022-jp char into a geta character
+(substitute character in Japanese).
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.B \-b
-bufferd output.
-This is a default.
+buffered output.
+This is default.
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.B \-u
-unbufferd output.
+unbuffered output.
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.B \-t
no operations.
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.B \-O
-Output result to file. The first name in arguments becomes output.
+Output result to file. The first string in arguments becomes output file name.
Please be careful. If there are no file arguments, nkf.out is chosen.
\--overwrite does rewriting. Original listed files are replaced by filtered
result.
-Lu unix (LF)
-Lw windows (CRLF)
-Lm mac (CR)
-default no conversion
+default is no conversion (output as it is).
.fl
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.B \-F
YAMASHITA Junji,
Yasuyuki Sato,
Yoshiaki Yanagihara,
-Yoshiaki Yanagihara,
hat@so-net,
SHIOZAKI Takehiko,
Koji Arai,
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