native2ascii (original) (raw)

Description

The native2ascii command converts encoded files supported by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to files encoded in ASCII, using Unicode escapes (\u xxxx) notation for all characters that are not part of the ASCII character set. This process is required for properties files that contain characters not in ISO-8859-1 character sets. The tool can also perform the reverse conversion.

If the outputfile value is omitted, then standard output is used for output. If, in addition, the inputfile value is omitted, then standard input is used for input.