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UDO expects a text file that you can edit with every ASCII editor. You should use only printable characters. That means you shouldn't use any characters below "space" except ASCII 9 (tab), ASCII 10 (line feed) and ASCII 13 (carriage return). A line of a source file shouldn't contain more than 512 characters.

UDO layouts the destination file itself. That means that it fills in spaces between words and lines between paragraphs:

Words
are characters that are divided by one or more blank or tab. UDO prints words divided by one blank.
 
Paragraphs
consist of words. Paragraphs are divided by one or more empty line(s) or UDO commands. UDO divides paragraphs by one empty line when printing the destination file.
 

You can compose the source file using different charsets. UDO supports the following character sets:

When UDO starts the conversion it excepts the character set that is used on the current operating system. If you want to convert source files that use characters from a different operating system you have to tell it to UDO by using the upper commands. Additional information can be found in the chapter "Special characters".


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