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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Backwards question mark appearing in FTP'd file Post 302404909 by Korn0474 on Wednesday 17th of March 2010 01:00:01 PM
Old 03-17-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by turk451
Appears to be a UTF-16 byte order mark:

Byte order mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From another forum, one Unix utility to convert to UTF-8 (assuming your program cannot process UTF-16 encoded text) might be recode:

recode - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

There is also this utility which may be useful:

https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...f-16-file.html

iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 myfile > temporary_file
grep '1 CHAR UNICODE' temporary_file
I tried the iconv command and got the following error: iconv: can not initialize the conversion
 

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purple-url-handler(1)						   User Commands					     purple-url-handler(1)

NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL] DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple. OPTIONS
Usage: purple-url-handler URL Example: purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message" ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-im-client | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5) purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/ NOTES
Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007. SunOS 5.11 02 Apr 2008 purple-url-handler(1)
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