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|Name=uni2ascii
 
|Name=uni2ascii
 
|Short description=A pair of programs that convert between Unicode and various 7-bit ASCII representations.
 
|Short description=A pair of programs that convert between Unicode and various 7-bit ASCII representations.
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|Full description=his package provides conversion in both directions between UTF-8 Unicode and more than thirty 7-bit ASCII equivalents, including RFC 2396 URI format and RFC 2045 Quoted Printable format, the representations used in HTML, SGML, XML, OOXML, the Unicode standard, Rich Text Format, POSIX portable charmaps, POSIX locale specifications, and Apache log files, and the escapes used for including Unicode in Ada, C, Common Lisp, Java, Pascal, Perl, Postscript, Python, Scheme, and Tcl.
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Such ASCII equivalents are useful when including Unicode text in program source, when debugging, and when entering text into web programs that can handle the Unicode character set but are not 8-bit safe. For example, MovableType, the blog software, truncates posts as soon as it encounters a byte with the high bit set. However, if Unicode is entered in the form of HTML numeric character entities, Movable Type will not garble the post.
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It also provides ways of converting non-ASCII characters to similar ASCII characters, e.g. by stripping diacritics.
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|Homepage URL=http://billposer.org/Software/uni2ascii.html
 
|User level=none
 
|User level=none
|Status=Live
 
 
|Component programs=ascii2uni
 
|Component programs=ascii2uni
|Homepage URL=http://billposer.org/Software/uni2ascii.html
 
|VCS checkout command=
 
 
|Computer languages=C
 
|Computer languages=C
 
|Documentation note=The -h flag provides fairly detailed usage information. Standard Unix man pages are provided with the source.
 
|Documentation note=The -h flag provides fairly detailed usage information. Standard Unix man pages are provided with the source.
|Paid support=
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|Accepts cryptocurrency donations=No
|IRC help=
 
|IRC general=
 
|IRC development=
 
 
|Related projects=Ascii2Binary,Libiconv,xlit,Recode
 
|Related projects=Ascii2Binary,Libiconv,xlit,Recode
 
|Keywords=Unicode,conversion,ASCII,escape,character reference
 
|Keywords=Unicode,conversion,ASCII,escape,character reference
|Is GNU=n
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|Version identifier=4.18
|Last review by=Bill Poser
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|Version date=2011/05/15
|Last review date=2006-05-17
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|Version status=stable
|Submitted by=Database conversion
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|Version download=http://billposer.org/Software/Downloads/uni2ascii-4.18.tar.bz2
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|Version comment=4.18 stable released on 2011-05-15
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|Last review by=Bendikker
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|Last review date=2018/02/28
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
 
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
|Version identifier=4.9
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|Is GNU=No
|Version date=2008-05-07
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|License verified date=2005-10-03
|Version status=stable
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|Version download=http://billposer.org/Software/Downloads/uni2ascii.tar.gz
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{{Project license
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|License=GPLv3
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|License verified by=Ted Teah
 
|License verified date=2005-10-03
 
|License verified date=2005-10-03
|Version comment=3.8 stable released on 2006-04-30
 
 
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{{Person
 
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|Real name=Bill Poser
 
|Role=Maintainer
 
|Role=Maintainer
|Real name=Bill Poser
 
 
|Email=billposer@alum.mit.edu
 
|Email=billposer@alum.mit.edu
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|Resource audience=Debian (Ref)
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|Resource URL=https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uni2ascii
 
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Latest revision as of 04:55, 28 February 2018


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uni2ascii

http://billposer.org/Software/uni2ascii.html
A pair of programs that convert between Unicode and various 7-bit ASCII representations.

his package provides conversion in both directions between UTF-8 Unicode and more than thirty 7-bit ASCII equivalents, including RFC 2396 URI format and RFC 2045 Quoted Printable format, the representations used in HTML, SGML, XML, OOXML, the Unicode standard, Rich Text Format, POSIX portable charmaps, POSIX locale specifications, and Apache log files, and the escapes used for including Unicode in Ada, C, Common Lisp, Java, Pascal, Perl, Postscript, Python, Scheme, and Tcl.

Such ASCII equivalents are useful when including Unicode text in program source, when debugging, and when entering text into web programs that can handle the Unicode character set but are not 8-bit safe. For example, MovableType, the blog software, truncates posts as soon as it encounters a byte with the high bit set. However, if Unicode is entered in the form of HTML numeric character entities, Movable Type will not garble the post.

It also provides ways of converting non-ASCII characters to similar ASCII characters, e.g. by stripping diacritics.





Licensing

License

Verified by

Verified on

Notes

License

GPLv3

Verified by

Ted Teah

Verified on

3 October 2005




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Bill Poser Maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Debian (Ref)https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uni2ascii
Bug Tracking,Developer,SupportE-mailmailto:billposer@alum.mit.edu


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