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.SH NAME
ansel2uni \- convert an ANSEL 8-bit stream to UTF-8
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.SH "SYNOPSIS "
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ansel2uni
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.SH "OPTIONS "
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none
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.SH "DESCRIPTION "
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\fIansel2uni\fP reads the standard input and transforms byte sequences conforming to the 8-bit ANSEL (a\&.k\&.a\&. Z39-47-1993 or ISO-IR-231) standard to the UTF-8 Unicode encoding\&. The dedicated interpretation of the input stream can be modified to adhere to MARC or GEDCOM standards at compile time\&.
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The UTF-8 output may then be converted with tools like uni2ascii(1) or recode(1) to other schemes and character sets\&.
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.SH "EXAMPLES "
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cat foo*\&.txt | ansel2uni > bar\&.utf8
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cat foo*\&.txt | ansel2uni | uni2ascii -q -a Q -a H > bar\&.html
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.SH "SEE ALSO "
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uni2ascii(1) recode(1)
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.SH "CAUTION "
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This is in an alpha state and has been tested only marginally\&.
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.SH "AUTHOR "
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Richard J\&. Mathar, http://www.mpia.de/~mathar