---
name: "makechs"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "jamnntpd"
version: "1.3-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/makechs"
---

# makechs(1)

A program that can be used to create additional translation tables for use by JamNNTPd.

## NAME

makechs - A program that can be used to create additional translation tables for use by JamNNTPd.

## SYNOPSIS

**makechs \<fromchrs\> \<destchrs\> \<frommap\> \[\<destmap\>\]**

## DESCRIPTION

The \*.chs files in the "xlat" and "unicode/xlat" directories are character set translation tables in the GoldED+ format. The files were created from mappings files found at this URL:

- http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/

  - Fallback sequences for characters that do not exist in the target charset were taken from Markus Kuhn's transliteration tables found at the URL below:

  - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/transtab.tar.gz

  - If you want to create additional translation tables, you can easily do so using this utility.

  ## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below:

- **\<fromchrs\>**

  The fidonet name of the charset you want to convert from.

- **\<destchrs\>**

  The fidonet name of the charset you want to convert to.

- **\<frommap\>**

  The Unicode mappings file for the source charset.

- **\<destmap\>**

  The Unicode mappings file for the destination charset. If you don't supply a mappings file, makechs will instead create a chs file that converts the source charset to utf-8.

- The output of makechs is written to the console and needs to be redirected to the desired file.

  ## SEE ALSO

**[jamnntpd(1)](/jamnntpd/1.md).**\

## AUTHOR

makechs was written by Johan Billing \<billing@df.lth.se\>.

This manual page was written by Robert James Clay \<jame@rocasa.us\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).