Convert Chinese to Unicode or reverse with native2ascii or uni2ascii on FreeBSD

 

Use  uni2ascii

Install uni2ascii 

# pkg install uni2ascii 

 

Converting Chinese to Unicode:

% uni2ascii -a U chinese.txt  > unicode.txt

 

Converting Unicode to Chinese:
% ascii2uni -a U unicode.txt  > chinese.txt

 

Use native2ascii

Converting Chinese  to Unicode:

% native2ascii -encoding GBK  chinese.txt unicode.txt

Converting Unicode to Chinese:

% native2ascii -reverse -encoding GBK unicode.txt chinese.txt

native2ascii is a tool of JDK, you need to install JDK first if you want to use native2ascii.