Documentation & Support

http://www.slideshare.net/buganini/bsdconv

http://www.slideshare.net/Buganini/journey-of-bsdconv

API Reference: http://buganini.github.io/bsdconv/

Use bsdconv-man to show manual page for each module

IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net#bsdconv

Compilation & Installation

make PREFIX=/usr # default is /usr/local
sudo make install

Example

Convert traditional chinese big5 to simplified chinese utf-8

bsdconv big5:zhcn:utf-8 in.txt > out.txt
bsdconv big5:zhcn:utf-8 -i in.txt #inplace

Convert traditional chinese utf-8 to simplified chinese GB2312 with transliteration

bsdconv utf-8:zhcn:cp936,cp936-trans in.txt > out.txt

Convert simplified chinese to traditional chinese

bsdconv utf-8:zhtw:zhtw-words:utf-8

And ignoring whitespaces mixed in words

bsdconv utf-8:whitespace-derail:zhtw:zhtw-words:whitespace-rerail:utf-8

Convert big5 data, traditional chinese to simplified chinese, CRLF/CR/LF to CRLF, to big5 data, translate simplified chinese words, which are not in big5, to HTML entities, and uppercase the ascii characters.

bsdconv big5:zhcn:win:upper:big5,htmlentity in.txt > out.txt

Very useful for migrating MySQL DB from Big5 to UTF-8

bsdconv htmlentity,big5-5c,big5:utf-8 in.sql > out.sql

Recover from mis-decoding/encoding (mistreated big5 as iso-8859-1 and converted to utf-8)

bsdconv 'utf-8:iso-8859-1|big5:utf-8'

Decode escaped data (byte/unicode mixed) like %u9644%20

bsdconv 'escape,byte:unicode,byte|skip,ascii:utf-8'

Generate string for fuzzy comparison

echo ¼ℌăǅⓐ⁹灣湾ド鬒鬒æß | bsdconv UTF-8:ZH-FUZZY-TW:KANA-PHONETIC:NFKD-CASEFOLD:UTF-8
1⁄4hădža9灣灣do鬒鬒æss

Translate text to HTML

bsdconv big5:nl2br:ascii,html-img in.txt > out.htm

Use glyph image from http://www.cns11643.gov.tw

bsdconv utf-8:ascii,ascii-html-cns11643-img in.txt out.htm

Maintain inter map:

bsdconv bsdconv-keyword,bsdconv:bsdconv-keyword,utf-8 inter/FOO.txt > edit.tmp
vi edit.tmp
bsdconv bsdconv-keyword,utf-8:bsdconv-keyword,bsdconv edit.tmp > inter/FOO.txt