01-04-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by
DGPickett
Well, utf-8 and unicode have a pattern in their encoding. The dd command has an ebcdic decoder I have used. Might it be from big blue land?
Googling around the subject, one suggests file -i, another mentions enca
enca(1): detect/convert encoding of text files - Linux man page and for solaris, auto_ef. There is a 'chardet' python based tool.
Yes tried file -i and it tells me it is a regular file. By big blue land, I assume you mean IBM? If that's the case yes I am using an AIX machine therefore auto_ef and enca are unrecognized commands. Yet to try chardet...I'll have to dig deeper. Thanks though!
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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)
Discussion started by: ssmallya
6 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello!
The system is AIX 5.3
Give please command or script to get the file encoding
Thanks (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vinment
2 Replies
3. AIX
Hello!
The system is AIX 5.3
Give please command or script to get the file encoding (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vinment
1 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
In my project i cannot determine the number of check list initially... I will know dynamically during execution... so How to specify the number of check list dynamically in zenity
Waiting for your precious Answer..... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: shivarajM
1 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: royalibrahim
4 Replies
6. HP-UX
how to find the character encoding of a file in hp_ux (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: alokjyotibal
1 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am beginner to Unix.
My requirement is to validate the encoding used in the incoming file(csv,txt).If it is encoded with UTF-8 format,then the file should remain as such otherwise i need to chnage the encoding to UTF-8.
Please advice me how to proceed on this. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: cnraja
7 Replies
8. HP-UX
Hi Experts,
Need your advise in determining the size of swap space in of the new HP-Ux server.
Server is having 32G of physical memory.
Ideally what amout of physical memory should be allocated as a swap space?
Following document from HP suggests to have minimum swap space... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sai_2507
2 Replies
9. Solaris
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)
Discussion started by: mrreds
2 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
how can i know what format a file is
* example:
UTF-8
ANSI
UCS2
i am in a... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: tricampeon81
8 Replies
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)