PTEKF(1)

πŸ“¦ version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

PTEKF(1) πŸŽ€ General Commands Manual ✨ okay so this is the manual page for ptekf, the pTeX-enc Kanji Filter πŸ’–

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, ptekf is the pTeX-enc Kanji Filter πŸ¦‹ 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 πŸ’… 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 πŸ”₯

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -j β€” set the output encoding to ISO-2022-JP 🌈
  • -s β€” set the output encoding to Shift_JIS πŸ“
  • -e β€” set the output encoding to EUC-JP 🫢
  • -u β€” set the output encoding to UTF-8 πŸ’œ
  • -J β€” set the input encoding to ISO-2022-JP πŸ¦‹
  • -S β€” set the input encoding to Shift_JIS 🌸
  • -E β€” set the input encoding to EUC-JP ✨
  • -U β€” set the input encoding to UTF-8 πŸ’–
  • -g, --guess β€” guess the input encoding, but don't convert anything πŸ™ˆ
  • -G β€” guess the input encoding and output to stdout or files πŸ‘‘
  • -b, --buffer β€” output the internal buffer without any code conversion 🧚
  • -v, --version β€” print the version number πŸ’…
  • -h, --help β€” 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 πŸŽ€

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

eptex(1), euptex(1), pbibtex(1), upbibtex(1), mendex(1) πŸ’œ

✨ 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> 🫢


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