# native2ascii - Native-to-ASCII Converter

> Converts a file with native-encoded characters (characters which are non-Latin 1 and non-Unicode) to one with Unicode-encoded characters.

## SYNOPSIS

>     native2ascii [options] [inputfile [outputfile]]

## DESCRIPTION

> The Java compiler and other Java tools can only process files which contain Latin-1 and/or Unicode-encoded (\udddd notation) characters. `native2ascii` converts files which contain other character encodings into files containing Latin-1 and/or Unicode-encoded charaters.

> If `outputfile` is omitted, standard output is used for output. If, in addition, `inputfile` is omitted, standard input is used for input.

## OPTIONS

> `-reverse`
>   Perform the reverse operation: convert a file with Latin-1 and/or Unicode encoded characters to one with native-encoded characters.
> `-encoding encoding_name`
>   Specify the encoding name which is used by the conversion procedure. The default encoding is taken from System property `file.encoding`. The `encoding_name` string must be taken from the first column of the table of supported encodings in the Supported Encodings document.

> -J option
>   Pass option to the Java virtual machine, where option is one of the options described on the reference page for the java application launcher. For example, -J-Xms48m sets the startup memory to 48 megabytes.