RE(1)

💖 NAME 💖

re — the little program that converts russian texts between different encodings, bestie 🦋

(it's from the General Commands Manual section, so yeah, that's the re(1) you're looking at 👑)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

re <infile><outfile><infrmt><outfrmt><f|b|s><u|l|s>

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so real talk: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. not me having to hand-write the docs for a whole encoding converter 😭 but we do it for the people.

and what is re? it's a program that converts russian texts between encodings. that's the whole vibe. encodings in, encodings out, slay 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the easiest way to convert some file into readable form (KOI-8)? literally just type this:

re <SourceFile> <DestFile> ? K

and here's what each piece is doing, iykyk:

• <SourceFile> — the unreadable file 🙈 (your poor eyes)
• <DestFile> — the resulting file 💖
• ? — tells RE that the source codepage is unknown, so RE should analyze the file and determine the source codepage itself 🕵️‍♀️
• K — tells RE that the destination codepage is KOI-8 ⭐

Note: if you know what the source codepage is, it is better to use it instead of the "?" option. for example, you want to convert a letter.txt file which was written in Win and you know that this file is in the 1251 codepage:

re letter.txt letter2.txt W K

now examine the letter2.txt — you should see russian symbols in KOI-8 🌈

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🔥 the known codepages + their abbreviatures 🔥

here's the whole list, no cap, every single one 👑

• W — Windows 1251
• D — Dos
• K — KOI-8
• L — Latin
• I — Iso
• H — HEX
• S — ShiftKbrd
• M — Mac
• A — AFF
• O — Odd(UTF8_1)
• B — Base64
• E — Express
• T — T-Html
• U — User
• "-" — uue
• "_" — _xxe
• "%" — %hex
• "\\" — 'hex
• G — Graph_win
• "<" — <binhex>
• + — +UTF7-
• C — C_MIC
• Y — Y_c16
• Z — Z_c32
• F — F(UTF8_2)
• P — Pict
• N — N_Estl
• V — V_Vpp855
• X — X_sp
• J — J_diff

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🫶 other options 🫶

the shape of them is: [-v][-E|-R|-N][-e|-s]

• -v — tells what is processing 👀
• -n — don't tells what is processing (default) 🤫
• -E — converts all p,H from Russian to English
• -R — converts all p,H from English to Russian
• -N — lets all p,H Russian or English as in text (default)
• -e — converts all symbols 0x80 - 0xFF, autodetection is weaker ⚠️
• -s — converts only 64 symbols of Russian Alphabet, except '0401' (default)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). iconic behaviour fr fr 💜

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and that's the whole page bestie 🎀 — this one's from March 21, 2000, and it lives in the RE(1) slot of the manual. go convert some encodings, you got this 💅✨