representations of numbers.
The two programs are useful for generating test data, for inspecting binary
files, and for interfacing programs that generate textual output to programs
that require binary input and conversely. They can also be useful when it is
desired to reformat numbers.
WWW: http://billposer.org/Software/a2b.html
convmv is meant to help convert a single filename, a directory tree and the
contained files or a whole filesystem into a different encoding. It just
converts the filenames, not the content of the files. A special feature of
convmv is that it also takes care of symlinks, also converts the symlink target
pointer in case the symlink target is being converted, too.
All this comes in very handy when one wants to switch over from old 8-bit
locales to UTF-8 locales. It is also possible to convert directories to UTF-8
which are already partly UTF-8 encoded. convmv is able to detect if certain
files are UTF-8 encoded and will skip them by default. To turn this smartness
off use the --nosmart switch.
PR: ports/73191
Submitted by: Kuang-che Wu <kcwu@csie.org>
MIME headers of e-mail messages
Categories: converters textproc russian ukrainian
Fix-mime-charset automatically detects character sets of
email message and modifies the Content-Type header
appropriately. It can be used as mail filter in mailing
lists where users often set the charset of their messages
incorrectly. It processes messages fast and accurately,
ignoring attachments, and correctly interprets transfer-encodings.
None but the Content-Type header is changed.
PR: ports/61050
Submitted by: Nosov Artem <chip-set@mail.ru>
Shftool is the reference implementation for the new,
XML-based Standard Hex Format (SHF).
Shftool is also a working converter/generator/extractor
between/to/of SHF-files and other hex formats.
SHF is specified in the the following Internet Draft:
http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-strombergson-shf-00.txt
Author: Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se>
WWW: http://www.df.lth.se/~triad/krad/shftool/
PR: 58651
Submitted by: Joachim Strombergson <watchman@ludd.luth.se>
Konwert is a package for conversion between various character encodings.
By encodings author imply not only different charsets like Windows-1252,
KOI8-R or UTF-8 but also the different representations of characters like
TeX escaping, quoted-printable and even RFC 1345 mnemonics. The autodetect
of the encodings is also implemented.
There are also filter filterm which allow to make separate input and output
conversions of the encodings for the given command. It can help e.g. when
our terminal is unable to display non-ASCII characters or to enter them
from the keyboard.
PR: 50614
Submitted by: Alex Semenyaka <alexs@snark.ratmir.ru>
