---
name: "paracode"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "unicode"
version: "3.2-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/paracode"
---

# paracode(1)

command line Unicode conversion tool

## NAME

paracode - command line Unicode conversion tool

## SYNOPSIS

**paracode** \[**-t** *tables*\] string

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the **paracode** command.

**paracode** exploits the full power of the Unicode standard to convert the text into visually similar stream of glyphs, while using completely different codepoints. It is an excellent didactic tool demonstrating the principles and advanced use of the Unicode standard.

**paracode** is a command line tool working as a filter, reading standard input in UTF-8 encoding and writing to standard output.

## OPTIONS

- **-t***tables*

  **--tables***tables*

  Use given list of conversion tables, separated by a plus sign.

  Special name 'all' selects all the tables.

  Note that selecting 'other', 'cyrillic\_plus' and 'cherokee' tables (and 'all') makes use of rather esoteric characters, and not all fonts contain them.

  Special table 'mirror' uses quite different character substitution, is not selected automatically with 'all' and does not work well with anything except plain ascii alphabetical characters.

  Example:

  paracode -t cyrillic+greek+cherokee

  paracode -t cherokee  \<input \>output

  paracode -r -t mirror  \<input \>output

  Possible tables are:

  cyrillic

  cyrillic\_plus

  greek

  other

  cherokee

  all

- **-r**

  Display text in reverse order after conversion, best used together with -t mirror.

## SEE ALSO

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

## AUTHOR

Radovan Garabík \<garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk\>