Try using the iconv program. That is the way I ever translate character sets. For example if I have utf-16 and I want ascii it is just:
Read the man page on it but then do a iconv -l to get of list of character sets that your iconv knows. Also use our search tool to look for threads containing "iconv". You are not the first person with this problem and you will probably find a few dozen threads.
Need Help?? We receive Files From GM Motors and they written on a Sun Workstation using the Tar Command on a 4mm Dat Tape. We have an HP sure Store 24 Tape drive that will Execpt but when i do that it says that the media is bad. was wondering if there was any software that would read it in its... (2 Replies)
I loaded OS X Panther on my Mac G4 and found that many files previously saved as Word or Word Perfect files were inadventently converted to Unix executable files. When I try to read these in Word, it cannot recognize or translate the file properly. Does anyone know how to translate these files? Is... (4 Replies)
I am trying to FTP a text file from a machine running LynxOS and I am having problems with the way windows "sees" the characters. For example this is how windows presents the text:
DevProcRcpClass
The boxes are what I am having problems with. When viewing the same file on a... (3 Replies)
Is there a tool available to convert UNIX (BASH Shell) scripts to DOS scripts?
I understand that DOS scripting is far inferior to unix scripting, and therfore this conversion may not be possible.
Alternativley, perhaps I could convert my Unix scripts to C... then compile it for a windows... (2 Replies)
Hello folks
I am working on a project that requires me to write a script that operates on a bunch of text files. When I try less file.txt I see a bunch of ^M's everywhere. Some Googling tells me that this is because the files have a DOS fileformat and found the following fixes:
sed 's/^M$//'... (5 Replies)
Hi
i try to change the date-format from DD/MM/YYYY into MM/DD/YY.
Input-Data:
...
31/12/2013,23:40,198.00,6.20,2,2,2,1,11580.0,222
31/12/2013,23:50,209.00,7.30,2,2,3,0,4380.0
01/01/2014,00:00,205.90,8.30,2,2,3,1,9360.0,223
...
Output-Data should be:
...... (7 Replies)
How to convert this:
F1-R1 F1-R2 F1-R3 into a flat file for bash?? Each record
F2-R1 F2-R2 F2-R3
F3-R1 F3-R2 F3-R3
F4-R1 F4-R2 F4-R3is on one line with all fields for that record, put into an output file. The output file should look like this when converted:
F1-R1,F2-R1,F3-R1,F4-R1... (6 Replies)
I uploaded a .dat file from sftp to my server and after using dos2unix to convert the file and check my work it says that the file was not transferred correctly and that the content is garbled. Please help (3 Replies)
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iconv
ICONV(1) Debian GNU/Linux ICONV(1)NAME
iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another
SYNOPSIS
iconv -f encoding [-t encoding] [inputfile]...
DESCRIPTION
The iconv program converts the encoding of characters in inputfile, or from the standard input if no filename is specified, from one coded
character set to another. The result is written to standard output unless otherwise specified by the --output option.
--from-code, -f encoding
Convert characters from encoding.
--to-code, -t encoding
Convert characters to encoding. If not specified the encoding corresponding to the current locale is used.
--list, -l
List known coded character sets.
-c Omit invalid characters from output.
--output, -o file
Specify output file (instead of stdout).
--silent, -s
Suppress warnings, but not errors.
--verbose
Print progress information.
--help, -?
Give help list.
--usage
Give a short usage message.
--version, -V
Print program version.
ENCODINGS
The values permitted for --from-code and --to-code can be listed by the iconv --list command, and all combinations of the listed values are
supported. Furthermore the following two suffixes are supported:
//TRANSLIT
When the string "//TRANSLIT" is appended to --to-code, transliteration is activated. This means that when a character cannot be
represented in the target character set, it can be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters.
//IGNORE
When the string "//IGNORE" is appended to --to-code, characters that cannot be represented in the target character set will be
silently discarded.
AUTHOR
iconv was written by Ulrich Drepper as part of the GNU C Library.
This man page was written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
3rd Berkeley Distribution lenny ICONV(1)