EXTCONV(1)

✨ EXTCONV 💅

okay so bestie, meet extconv — she converts a TeX document that's chillin' in either Big 5+ or GBK encoding into that preprocessed form. she's a filter, she's iconic, she's part of the CJK squad. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

extconv < infile > outfile

that's it. in through stdin, out through stdout, no cap. 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: Big 5+ and GBK encodings use the characters {, }, and \ — and those three little divas have special meanings in TeX documents. 😭

once you've run a LaTeX 2e document that contains those characters through extconv, you literally do not have to worry about these special characters anymore. not even a little bit. she handles it. periodt. 💅✨

this filter is part of the CJK macro package for LaTeX 2e — so if you're already in that ecosystem, she's already your girl. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• bg5conv(1)
• sjisconv(1)
• cefconv(1)
• cef5conv(1)
• cefsconv(1)
• the CJK documentation files 🍓

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> — absolute legend, main character energy, we stan. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this was CJK Version 4.8.5, dated 16-Oct-2021 — go forth and preprocess your TeX, you got this ✨💖