NAME

gb2jis - convert GuoBiao Hanzi to JIS Kanji

SYNOPSYS

gb2jis [ -hjespi ] [ filename... ]

DESCRIPTION

gb2jis converts GB2312-80 and GB8565-88 characters to JISX0208-1983 and JISX0212-1990 characters. GB2312-80 (^[$A), GB2312-80 + GB8565-88 (^[$(E), and Chinese-EUC (8-bit GuoBiao) are available for Hanzi code.

OPTIONS

-h: Translate HZ-encoding. Regard ~{ as ^[$A and ~} as ^[(B for input.
-j: Do not use JISX0212-1990.
-e: Use Japanese-EUC for output. (include -j)
-s: Use Shift-JIS for output. (include -j)
-p: Use UZPJ for unprintable characters in output.
-i: Force to flush output characters one by one. This is the default when output is a tty.

UZPJ

UZPJ is a description method of Chinese syllables. Any syllable is described by two letters. First letter represents its consonant and second letter its vowel. Tones are represented by four combinations of big and small letters, where big ones are considered as high-tone.

We can translate UZPJ letters into ordinary Pinyin. The first letter is equal to the same Pinyin letter except I, U, and V for ch, sh, and zh, respectively. The second letter is translated by the table below:

|A a   |B an  |C ang |D ai  |E e   |F en  |G eng |H ei  |I i   |
|J in  |K ing |L ie  |M iao |N iu  |O o   |P ou  |Q ong |R ao  |
|S uo  |T uan |U u   |V un  |W ui  |X ia  |Y ian |Z iang|^ ^   |

except the following combinations (":" means dieresis).

|AA a     |AG ang   |AN an    |EE e     |EG eng   |EN en    |
|ER er    |GX gua   |GY guai  |GZ guang |HK hng   |HM hm    |
|HX hua   |HY huai  |HZ huang |IX chua  |IY chuai |IZ chuang|
|JQ jiong |JW jue   |KX kua   |KY kuai  |KZ kuang |LF lu:   |
|LW lu:e  |NO nu:   |NW nu:e  |NX n     |OG ng    |OO o     |
|QQ qiong |QW que   |RX rua   |UX shua  |UY shuai |UZ shuang|
|VX zhua  |VY zhuai |VZ zhuang|XQ xiong |XW xue   |YW yue   |

Tone mark is decided by the rule below.

macron


when both letters are big

acute

when first letter is small and second big

caron

when both letters are small

grave

when first letter is big and second small

circumflex

when second letter is "^"

BUGS

A few mistakes may be left on the conversion table.

AUTHOR

Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka