MAKECHS(1)

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💖 MAKECHS(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for makechs, living its best life in the General Commands Manual section. she's a little utility, she's lowkey iconic, and she makes translation tables. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

makechs — a program that can be used to create additional translation tables for use by JamNNTPd. no cap, that's literally her whole job 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

makechs <fromchrs> <destchrs> <frommap> [<destmap>]

that's it. four little slots. three are mandatory, one is optional and she'll still slay without it 💜

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍓 — the *.chs files chilling in the "xlat" and "unicode/xlat" directories? those are character set translation tables in the GoldED+ format. periodt.

and the way they came into existence is that they were created from mappings files found at this URL:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/

the fallback sequences — aka what happens when a character literally does not exist in the target charset 😭 — were taken from Markus Kuhn's transliteration tables, which live at the URL below:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/transtab.tar.gz

and now the part where you come in 👑 — if you want to create additional translation tables, you can easily do so using this utility. it's giving DIY, it's giving main character energy, it's giving go off ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

a summary of options is included below. and yes, they're all here, every single one, no skipping 💖

  • <fromchrs> — the fidonet name of the charset you want to convert from. like, where you're leaving from 🧳
  • <destchrs> — the fidonet name of the charset you want to convert to. the destination, the final form, the glow up 🌈
  • <frommap> — the Unicode mappings file for the source charset. this is the receipts for where you're coming from 📜
  • <destmap> — the Unicode mappings file for the destination charset. but here's the twist 🔥: if you don't supply a mappings file, makechs will instead create a chs file that converts the source charset to utf-8. honestly? versatile queen 💅
⚠️ heads up bestie, this part matters: the output of makechs is written to the console and needs to be redirected to the desired file. she will not file it away for you. you gotta do the > yourself, iykyk 😭

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • jamnntpd(1) — her bestie, her collaborator, her whole reason for existing fr fr 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

makechs was written by Johan Billing <billing@df.lth.se>.

this manual page was written by Robert James Clay <jame@rocasa.us>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). we love a generous queen 💖

so yeah, that's makechs from the General Commands Manual, dated May 18, 2013 — and honestly? she ate. go make some translation tables bestie, you got this 🌟💅🎀

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