letterize(1) [debian man page]
LETTERIZE(1) Miscellanea LETTERIZE(1) NAME
letterize_ - phone-number to letter-mnemonic generator SYNOPSIS
letterize nnnnnnn DESCRIPTION
This program tries to help you find a letter mnemonic matching a given phone number. It emits to standard output each possible pronounceable mnemonic, one per line, using the American standard mapping of dial letters to numbers (2 goes to ABC, 3 to DEF, 4 to GHI, 5 to JKL, 6 to MNO, 7 to PRS, 8 to TUV, 9 to XYZ). The program uses a table of pronounceable letter-triples derived from a dictionary scan. Each potential mnemonic must be such that all of its letter-triples are in the table to be emitted. About 30% of possible triples are considered pronounceable. A typical 7-digit phone number has 19,683 possible mnemonics, but this test usually cuts the list down to a few hundred or so, a reasonable number to eyeball-check. For some numbers, the list will, sadly, be empty. It's best to leave out punctuation such as dashes and parens. BUGS
The filtering method doesn't know what plausible medial triples are not reasonable at the beginnings and ends of words. I'm not sure what table position 0 (which is what 0 and 1 are mapped to) means. If you figure it out, you tell me. I really should have generated my own table, but that would have been more work than this seemed worth -- if your number contains either, you probably need to generate your mnemonic in disjoint pieces around the digits anyway. AUTHOR
Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com. It's based on a table of plausible letter-triples that had no name attached to it. Surf to http://www.catb.org/~esr/ for updates and related resources. letterize 05/30/2012 LETTERIZE(1)
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ASCII(1) Development Tools ASCII(1) NAME
ascii - report character aliases SYNOPSIS
ascii [-dxohv] [-t] [char-alias...] OPTIONS
Called with no options, ascii behaves like `ascii -h'. Options are as follows: -t Script-friendly mode, emits only ISO/decimal/hex/octal/binary encodings of the character. -s Parse multiple characters. Convenient way of parsing strings. -d Ascii table in decimal. -x Ascii table in hex. -o Ascii table in octal. -h, -? Show summary of options and a simple ASCII table. -v Show version of program. DESCRIPTION
Characters in the ASCII set can have many aliases, depending on context. A character's possible names include: * Its bit pattern (binary representation). * Its hex, decimal and octal representations. * Its teletype mnemonic and caret-notation form (for control chars). * Its backlash-escape form in C (for some control chars). * Its printed form (for printables). * Its full ISO official name in English. * Its ISO/ECMA code table reference. * Its name as an HTML/SGML entity. * Slang and other names in wide use for it among hackers. This utility accepts command-line strings and tries to interpret them as one of the above. When it finds a value, it prints all of the names of the character. The constructs in the following list can be used to specify character values. If an argument could be interpreted in two or more ways, names for all the different characters it might be are dumped. character Any character not described by one of the following conventions represents the character itself. ^character A caret followed by a character. character A backslash followed by certain special characters (abfnrtv). mnemonic An ASCII teletype mnemonic. hexadecimal A hexadecimal (hex) sequence consists of one or two case-insensitive hex digit characters (01234567890abcdef). To ensure hex interpretation use hexh, 0xhex, xhex or xhex. decimal A decimal sequence consists of one, two or three decimal digit characters (0123456789). To ensure decimal interpretation use ddecimal, ddecimal, or ddecimal. octal An octal sequence consists of one, two or three octal digit characters (01234567). To ensure octal interpretation use octal, 0ooctal, ooctal, or ooctal. bit pattern A bit pattern (binary) sequence consists of one to eight binary digit characters (01). To ensure bit interpretation use 0bbit pattern, bbit pattern or bit pattern. ISO/ECMA code A ISO/ECMA code sequence consists of one or two decimal digit characters, a slash, and one or two decimal digit characters. name An official ASCII or slang name. The slang names recognized and printed out are from a rather comprehensive list that first appeared on USENET in early 1990 and has been continuously updated since. Mnemonics recognized and printed include the official ASCII set, some official ISO names (where those differ) and a few common-use alternatives (such as NL for LF). HTML/SGML entity names are also printed when applicable. All comparisons are case-insensitive, and dashes are mapped to spaces. Any unrecognized arguments or out of range values are silently ignored. Note that the -s option will not recognize 'long' names, as it cannot differentiate them from other parts of the string. For correct results, be careful to stringize or quote shell metacharacters in arguments (especially backslash). This utility is particularly handy for interpreting cc(1)'s ugly octal `invalid-character' messages, or when coding anything to do with serial communications. As a side effect it serves as a handy base-converter for random 8-bit values. AUTHOR
Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com; November 1990 (home page at http://www.catb.org/~esr/). Reproduce, use, and modify as you like as long as you don't remove this authorship notice. Ioannis E. Tambouras <ioannis@debian.org> added command options and minor enhancements. Brian J. Ginsbach <ginsbach@sgi.com> fixed several bugs and expanded the man page. David N. Welton <davidw@efn.org> added the -s option. Matej Vela corrected the ISO names. Dave Capella contributed the idea of listing HTML/SGML entities. ascii 03/26/2011 ASCII(1)