NAME
paracode - command line Unicode conversion tool
SYNOPSIS
paracode [-ttables] string
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the paracode command.
paracode exploits the full power of the Unicode standard to convert the
text into visually similar stream of glyphs, while using completely
different codepoints. It is an excellent didactic tool demonstrating
the principles and advanced use of the Unicode standard.
paracode is a command line tool working as a filter, reading standard
input in UTF-8 encoding and writing to standard output.
OPTIONS
-ttables
--tables
Use given list of conversion tables, separated by a plus sign.
Special name ’all’ selects all the tables.
Note that selecting ’other’, ’cyrillic_plus’ and ’cherokee’
tables (and ’all’) makes use of rather esoteric characters, and
not all fonts contain them.
Special table ’mirror’ uses quite different character
substitution, is not selected automatically with ’all’ and does
not work well with anything except plain ascii alphabetical
characters.
Example:
paracode -t cyrillic+greek+cherokee
paracode -t cherokee <input >output
paracode -r -t mirror <input >output
Possible tables are:
cyrillic
cyrillic_plus
greek
other
cherokee
all
-r Display text in reverse order after conversion, best used
together with -t mirror.
SEE ALSO
iconv(1)
AUTHOR
Radovan Garabík <garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>
2005-04-16