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Old 02-04-2008
ssmallya ssmallya is offline
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Red face File encoding in Unix
1. I have a shell script which creates a file using cat command. How can i find what encoding the file follows (e.g. UTF8, ANSI)?

2. I want to convert that file to PC-ANSI format. How can i achieve that?

I am using HP-Unix.