I doubt you can automate the detection of the encoding used on files it it's not specified somehow in the files themselves. Try playing around with AIX file -i and see what it thinks of your input files.
Last edited by Chubler_XL; 05-25-2011 at 11:02 PM..
Reason: Fixed typo in code (iconv not iconf)
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. (6 Replies)
In a bash script:
src=”cooltrack.wav”
dst=”cooltrack.mp3”
lame $src $dst
I would like to add some line that would delete the source wav file like:
rm $src
but I would like this only if the encoding was successful.
What should I include before deleting the original to check that the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have got a zip (binary) file transferred from MacOS (thus it has additional __MACOSX directory packed inside). On extracting this zip, there are few *.xml files available. When I opened this *.xml file in vim editor using Cygwin (on windows) the editor displayed in the bottom. I tried... (4 Replies)
Hi, I am trying to determine the encoding for the file, because to convert to UTF-8, it seems as though I have to know the encoding of the source.
Tried this
file <filename>
give me this:
<filename>:data or International Language text
Tried to see the locale and this is the output:... (6 Replies)
Hello Experts, please help to provide any insight as I am facing issue migrating java application from hpux to redhat. The java program is using InputStreamReader to read a file without specifying any charset parameter.
However, in new Linux Redhat 5.6 environent, when reading a file that... (1 Reply)
Hi all!!
I´m using command file -i myfile.xml to validate XML file encoding, but it is just saying regular file . I´m expecting / looking an output as UTF8 or ANSI / ASCII
Is there command to display the files encoding?
Thank you! (2 Replies)
how can i know what format a file is
* example:
UTF-8
ANSI
UCS2
i am in a... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: tricampeon81
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manconv
MANCONV(1) Manual pager utils MANCONV(1)NAME
manconv - convert manual page from one encoding to another
SYNOPSIS
manconv -f from-code[:from-code...] -t to-code [-dqhV] [filename]
DESCRIPTION
manconv converts a manual page from one encoding to another, like iconv. Unlike iconv, it can try multiple possible input encodings in
sequence. This is useful for manual pages installed in directories without an explicit encoding declaration, since they may be in UTF-8 or
in a legacy character set.
If an encoding declaration is found on the first line of the manual page, that declaration overrides any input encodings specified on man-
conv's command line. Encoding declarations have the following form:
'" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
or (if manual page preprocessors are also to be declared):
'" t -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*-
OPTIONS -f encodings, --from-code encodings
Try each of encodings (a colon-separated list) in sequence as the input encoding.
-t encoding, --to-code encoding
Convert the manual page to encoding.
-q, --quiet
Do not issue error messages when the page cannot be converted.
-d, --debug
Print debugging information.
-h, --help
Print a help message and exit.
-V, --version
Display version information.
SEE ALSO iconv(1), man(1)AUTHOR
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
2.8.3 2018-04-05 MANCONV(1)