A program that can be used to create additional translation tables for use by jamnntpd.
makechs lt;fromchrsgt; lt;destchrsgt; lt;frommapgt; [lt;destmapgt;]
The *.chs files in the "xlat" and "unicode/xlat" directories are character set translation tables in the GoldED+ format. The files were created from mappings files found at this URL:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/
Fallback sequences for characters that do not exist in the target charset were taken from Markus Kuhn's transliteration tables found at the URL below:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/transtab.tar.gz
If you want to create additional translation tables, you can easily do so using this utility.
A summary of options is included below:
lt;fromchrsgt;
The fidonet name of the charset you want to convert from.
lt;destchrsgt;
The fidonet name of the charset you want to convert to.
lt;frommapgt;
The Unicode mappings file for the source charset.
lt;destmapgt;
The Unicode mappings file for the destination charset. If you don't supply a mappings file, makechs will instead create a chs file that converts the source charset to utf-8.
The output of makechs is written to the console and needs to be redirected to the desired file.
makechs was written by Johan Billing <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Robert James Clay <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).