1. Scripts for reencoding text files and BDF-fonts. The script `trbdf' can convert a BDF font from one codeset to another. The script `trcs' reencodes text files from one codeset to another. It can generate scripts for `tr'. For example the command trcs --from cp1252 --to latin1 --gen-script gives you the following output: #!/bin/sh trap "exit 0" PIPE cat "$@" | tr \ '\200''\201''\202''\203''\204''\205''\206''\207''\210''\211''\212'\ '\213''\214''\215''\216''\217''\220''\221''\222''\223''\224''\225'\ '\226''\227''\230''\231''\232''\233''\234''\235''\236''\237' \ '\105''\77''\47''\146''\42''\267''\53''\77''\136''\77''\123'\ '\253''\117''\77''\132''\77''\77''\47''\47''\42''\42''\267'\ '\-''\-''\176''\77''\163''\273''\157''\77''\172''\131' Both scripts try to approximate the missing from the target codeset symbols. It is easy to add support of other character sets. From Debian 3.0r0 APT