SFCONV(1)

💖 SFCONV(1) 💖

General Commands Manual ✨ okay bestie, this is the manual page for sfconv, so let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

sfconv 🧚 is a tool for converting the encoding of Standard Format (SF) files. Lowkey iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

🔁 8-bit to Unicode:

sfconv -8u [-utf8|-be|-le] [-bom] -c ControlFile [-d MappingDirectory]
-i InFile -o OutFile

🔂 Unicode to 8-bit:

sfconv -u8 [-utf8|-be|-le] -c ControlFile [-d MappingDirectory] -i
InFile -o OutFile

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So a tool for converting Standard Format (SF) files is included in the current TECkit package 💅 This is sfconv, a command-line tool that uses an XML "control file" ✨ to specify the mappings for the various markers in an SF file. Literally the whole point.

⚠️ Real talk: the current SFconv tool should be considered a prototype rather than a full solution to SF conversions 🙈 A more complete tool with an improved user interface would be desirable. We stan future versions.

💜 OPTIONS 💜

The SFconv utility uses command-line options to specify the conversion direction, control file, and input and output files 🫶 The required arguments are:

• -8u|-u8 — conversion direction: 8-bit to Unicode, or vice versa 🔁
• -ccontrolFile — specifies the XML control file 📜
• -iinFile — specifies the filename of the input SF file 📥
• -ooutFile — specifies the filename for the converted output 📤

In addition, the following optional arguments may be used if appropriate 🍓

• -dmappingDir — the directory where the mapping files (.tec files) are to be found 🗂️
• -utf8|-be|-le — the Unicode encoding form: UTF-8, UTF-16BE, or UTF16-LE 💖 The default is UTF8 for output, or it's detected from the input file if a BOM is present
• -bom — (only when mapping to Unicode) writes an initial BOM to the output file 🌈
• -nfc|-nfd — (only when mapping to Unicode) normalizes to NFC or NFD ✨

📚 Further Information 📚

For further information, see the document TECkit_Tools.pdf 📄 On a Debian system, this can be found in /usr/share/doc/teckit 🧚

Okay that's the whole tea ☕ Stay iconic, bestie 💅🎀 TECkit · 2015-11-13 · SFCONV(1) 🌸💖