(recode.info)Recoding

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Controlling how files are recoded
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   The following options have the purpose of giving the user some fine
grain control over the recoding operation themselves.

`-c'
`--colons'
     With `Texte' Easy French conventions, use the column `:' instead
     of the double-quote `"' for marking diaeresis.  Note: Texte.

`-g'
`--graphics'
     This option is only meaningful while getting _out_ of the `IBM-PC'
     charset.  In this charset, characters 176 to 223 are used for
     constructing rulers and boxes, using simple or double horizontal or
     vertical lines.  This option forces the automatic selection of
     ASCII characters for approximating these rulers and boxes, at cost
     of making the transformation irreversible.  Option `-g' implies
     `-f'.

`-t'
`--touch'
     The _touch_ option is meaningful only when files are recoded over
     themselves.  Without it, the time-stamps associated with files are
     preserved, to reflect the fact that changing the code of a file
     does not really alter its informational contents.  When the user
     wants the recoded files to be time-stamped at the recoding time,
     this option inhibits the automatic protection of the time-stamps.

`-v'
`--verbose'
     Before doing any recoding, the program will first print on the
     `stderr' stream the list of all intermediate charsets planned for
     recoding, starting with the BEFORE charset and ending with the
     AFTER charset.  It also prints an indication of the recoding
     quality, as one of the word `reversible', `one to one', `one to
     many', `many to one' or `many to many'.

     This information will appear once or twice.  It is shown a second
     time only when the optimisation and step merging phase succeeds in
     replacing many single steps by a new one.

     This option also has a second effect.  The program will print on
     `stderr' one message per recoded FILE, so as to keep the user
     informed of the progress of its command.

     An easy way to know beforehand the sequence or quality of a
     recoding is by using the command such as:

          recode -v BEFORE..AFTER < /dev/null

     using the fact that, in `recode', an empty input file produces an
     empty output file.

`-x CHARSET'
`--ignore=CHARSET'
     This option tells the program to ignore any recoding path through
     the specified CHARSET, so disabling any single step using this
     charset as a start or end point.  This may be used when the user
     wants to force `recode' into using an alternate recoding path (yet
     using chained requests offers a finer control, Note: Requests).

     CHARSET may be abbreviated to any unambiguous prefix.


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