Translate an ASCII string to a printable-string encoding of the string.

Syntax

translate ascii_to_printablestring string

Command Qualifiers	Defaults
None.	None.

Parameters

string

An ASCII string.

Description

The translate ascii_to_printablestring command translates an ASCII string to a printable-string, using the multi-character substitutions specified in RFC 2156 for ASCII characters that have no printable-string equivalent.

Examples

This example illustrates the transformation of the ASCII string

"First Last"@example.com

to a printable-string version of the string. Note that ASCII string corresponds to a rather common form of Internet address. But such a string cannot be literally represented in an X.400 address (if for instance one wants to embed this address using the DD.RFC-822 X.400 attribute), since the quote character and at character are not printable-string characters---such characters have to be encoded, as with the RFC 2156 multi-character substitutions.

% pmdf test -x400 -x488 X400> translate ascii_to_printable """First Last""@example.com" Result: (q)First Last(q)(a)example.com