---
name: "dbfcstocs"
section: "1p"
platform: "linux"
package: "cstocs"
version: "1:3.44-1.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dbfcstocs"
---

# dbfcstocs(1p)

## NAME

dbfcstocs -- charset conversion of dbf files

## FORMAT

```
        dbfcstocs [options] src_encoding dst_encoding [file.dbf outfile.dbf...]
```

## SYNOPSIS

```
        dbfcstocs il2 1250 table.dbf table1.dbf
```

Please see the

```
        dbfcstocs --help
```

for short usage info.

## DESCRIPTION

This script is a wrapper around the cstocs utility, please see its man page first. This program converts charsets in dbf database files. You can also use the --field-names-charset option which will specify to which charset to convert the field names. So you can convert file in Windows-1250 to IOS-8859-2, but have its field names converted to US-ASCII:

```
        dbfcstocs --field-names-charset-ascii 1250 il2 table.dbf table1.dbf
```

After the encoding specifications, pass couples of input dbf file, output destination file names.

## SEE ALSO

[**cstocs**(1)](/cstocs/1.md).

## AUTHOR

Jan Pazdziora