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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting Unicode file to UTF8 format Post 302339925 by vfrg on Friday 31st of July 2009 09:34:07 PM
Old 07-31-2009
Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I have already handled replacing ^M characters in shell script. The issue with other special character (like rectangle shaped one). This character will be in the first position only in first line.

I will tell what i am doing. We get csv file from SAP server in our Unix server. This file has delimitter of tab. We need to replace tab with comma.
We have script that replaces tab with comma.

Before changing tab to comma, we opened the file from telnet and found the rectangle box in the first position in the first line.

After changing tab to comma using shell script, we opened the file from telnet and we noticed rectangle box in the first position in the first line.

When we download this file to our windows box and opened in excel by double clicking. We are seeing small small boxes and no content. If we open in notepad then we are able to see the content.

We manually removed rectangle shaped content from Unix and download into windows and opened the file in excel. This time, we are able to see the content.

We searched in google to get some help. They are telling it is something to do with encoding to UTF-8 before FTPing to Unix server. We have this capability in notepad, but we wanted to do this program without user intervention.

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.
Venkat
 

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XmTabList(library call) 												   XmTabList(library call)

NAME
XmTabList -- Data type for a tab list SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h> XmTabList DESCRIPTION
XmTabList is the data type for a tab list. A tab list consists of tab stop list entries (XmTabs). Whenever a tab component is encountered while an XmString is being rendered, the origin of the next X draw depends on the next XmTab. If a tab stop would cause text to overlap, the x position for the segment is reset to follow immediately after the end of the previous segment. Tab lists are specified in resource files with the following syntax: resource_spec: tab WHITESPACE [, WHITESPACE tab ]* The resource value string consists of one or more tabs separated by commas. Each tab identifies the value of the tab, the unit type, and whether the offset is relative or absolute. For example: tab := float [ WHITESPACE units ] float := [ sign ] [[ DIGIT]*. ]DIGIT+ sign := + where the presence or absence of sign indicates, respectively, a relative offset or an absolute offset. Note that negative tab values are not allowed. units indicates the unitType to use as described in the XmConvertUnits reference page. For example, the following specifies a tab list consisting of a one inch absolute tab followed by a one inch relative tab: *tabList: 1in, +1in For resources of type, dimension, or position, you can specify units as described in the XmNunitType resource of the XmGadget, XmManager, or XmPrimitive reference page. RELATED
Refer to the Motif Programmer's Guide for more information about tabs and tab lists. XmTabListCopy(3), XmTabListFree(3), XmTabListGet- Tab(3), XmTabListInsertTabs(3), XmTabListRemoveTabs(3), XmTabListReplacePositions(3), and XmTabListTabCount(3). XmTabList(library call)
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