PTEKF(1)

PTEKF(1) 🎀 General Commands Manual ✨ okay so this is the manual page for ptekf, the pTeX-enc Kanji Filter 💖

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, ptekf is the pTeX-enc Kanji Filter 🦋 it's a simple character encoding converter for input and output files of pTeX-family programs 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ptekf [options] [--] in_file1 [in_file2 ...]

ptekf --help | --version

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

ngl ptekf is giving main character energy for encoding stuff 💅 it's a simple character encoding converter for input and output files of pTeX-family programs. you can use it to check the character encoding conversion procedures and the encoding guessing that are implemented in pTeX-family tools, i.e. (e)(u)ptex, (u)pbibtex, mendex and so on 🧚 literally a vibe check for your kanji 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -j — set the output encoding to ISO-2022-JP 🌈
• -s — set the output encoding to Shift_JIS 🍓
• -e — set the output encoding to EUC-JP 🫶
• -u — set the output encoding to UTF-8 💜
• -J — set the input encoding to ISO-2022-JP 🦋
• -S — set the input encoding to Shift_JIS 🌸
• -E — set the input encoding to EUC-JP ✨
• -U — set the input encoding to UTF-8 💖
• -g, --guess — guess the input encoding, but don't convert anything 🙈
• -G — guess the input encoding and output to stdout or files 👑
• -b, --buffer — output the internal buffer without any code conversion 🧚
• -v, --version — print the version number 💅
• -h, --help — print the help message 🫶

okay but the defaults! the default input/output encoding depends on the kpathsearch parameters PTEX_KANJI_ENC and guess_input_kanji_encoding 🎀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

eptex(1), euptex(1), pbibtex(1), upbibtex(1), mendex(1) 💜

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this manual page was written by the Japanese TeX Development Community <https://texjp.org> 🌷 for more info, check out the GitHub repository <https://github.com/texjporg/tex-jp-build> 🫶

that's the whole tea, bestie 🍵 PTEKF(1) 💖😭