native2ascii - Native-to-ASCII Converter
Converts a file with native-encoded characters (characters which are non-Latin 1 and non-Unicode) to one with Unicode-encoded characters.
SYNOPSIS
native2ascii [options] [inputfile [outputfile]]
DESCRIPTION
The Java compiler and other Java tools can only process files which contain Latin-1 and/or Unicode-encoded (/udddd notation) characters.native2ascii
converts files which contain other character encodings into files containing Latin-1 and/or Unicode-encoded charaters.If
outputfile
is omitted, standard output is used for output. If, in addition,inputfile
is omitted, standard input is used for input.
OPTIONS
-reverse
- Perform the reverse operation: convert a file with Latin-1 and/or Unicode encoded characters to one with native-encoded characters.
-encoding encoding_name
- Specify the encoding name which is used by the conversion procedure. The default encoding is taken from System property
-J optionfile.encoding
. Theencoding_name
string must be taken from the first column of the table of supported encodings in the Supported Encodings document.
- Pass option to the Java virtual machine, where option is one of the options described on the reference page for the java application launcher. For example, -J-Xms48m sets the startup memory to 48 megabytes.
- http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/solaris/native2ascii.html
Using Ant
for example:
<native2ascii encoding="GBK" src="${src}" dest="${build}"/>