NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

One of the most unique faculty of nkf is the guess of the input kanji encodings. It currently recognizes ISO-2022-JP, Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32. So users needn't set the input kanji code explicitly.

By default, X0201 kana is converted into X0208 kana. For X0201 kana, SO/SI, SSO and ESC-(-I methods are supported. For automatic code detection, nkf assumes no X0201 kana in Shift_JIS. To accept X0201 in Shift_JIS, use -X, -x or -S.

multiple options are specifed as seprate strings, such as

  print nkf('--ic=UTF8-MAC', '-w', $string), "\n";

except the last arguments.

OPTIONS

-J -S -E -W -W16 -W32 -j -s -e -w -w16 -w32

Specify input and output encodings. Upper case is input. cf. --ic and --oc.

-b -u

Output is buffered (DEFAULT), Output is unbuffered.

-t

No conversion.

-i[@B]

Specify the escape sequence for JIS X 0208.

-o[BJ]

Specify the escape sequence for US-ASCII/JIS X 0201 Roman. (DEFAULT B)

-r

{de/en}crypt ROT13/47

-h[123] --hiragana --katakana --katakana-hiragana

-T

Text mode output (MS-DOS)

-f[m [- n]]

Folding on m length with n margin in a line. Without this option, fold length is 60 and fold margin is 10.

-F

New line preserving line folding.

-Z[0-3]

Convert X0208 alphabet (Fullwidth Alphabets) to ASCII.

-X -x

With -X or without this option, X0201 is converted into X0208 Kana. With -x, try to preserve X0208 kana and do not convert X0201 kana to X0208. In JIS output, ESC-(-I is used. In EUC output, SS2 is used.

-B[0-2]

Assume broken JIS-Kanji input, which lost ESC. Useful when your site is using old B-News Nihongo patch.

-I

Replacing non iso-2022-jp char into a geta character (substitute character in Japanese).

-m[BQN0]

MIME ISO-2022-JP/ISO8859-1 decode. (DEFAULT) To see ISO8859-1 (Latin-1) -l is necessary.

-M

MIME encode. Header style. All ASCII code and control characters are intact.

-l

Input and output code is ISO8859-1 (Latin-1) and ISO-2022-JP. -s, -e and -x are not compatible with this option.

-L[uwm] -d -c

Convert line breaks.

--fj --unix --mac --msdos --windows

Convert for these systems.

--jis --euc --sjis --mime --base64

Convert to named code.

--jis-input --euc-input --sjis-input --mime-input --base64-input

Assume input system

--ic=input codeset --oc=output codeset

Set the input or output codeset. NKF supports following codesets and those codeset names are case insensitive.

--fb-{skip, html, xml, perl, java, subchar}

Specify the way that nkf handles unassigned characters. Without this option, --fb-skip is assumed.

--prefix=escape charactertarget character..

When nkf converts to Shift_JIS, nkf adds a specified escape character to specified 2nd byte of Shift_JIS characters. 1st byte of argument is the escape character and following bytes are target characters.

--no-cp932ext

Handle the characters extended in CP932 as unassigned characters.

--no-best-fit-chars

When Unicode to Encoded byte conversion, don't convert characters which is not round trip safe. When Unicode to Unicode conversion, with this and -x option, nkf can be used as UTF converter. (In other words, without this and -x option, nkf doesn't save some characters)

When nkf converts strings that related to path, you should use this opion.

--cap-input

Decode hex encoded characters.

--url-input

Unescape percent escaped characters.

--numchar-input

Decode character reference, such as "&#....;".

--in-place[=SUFFIX] --overwrite[=SUFFIX]

Overwrite original listed files by filtered result.

Note --overwrite preserves timestamps of original files.

--guess=[12]

Print guessed encoding and newline. (2 is default, 1 is only encoding)

--help

Print nkf's help.

--version

Print nkf's version.

--

Ignore rest of -option.

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 1996-2015, The nkf Project.