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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Change encoding, no removing special chars. inconv Post 303011132 by drysdalk on Saturday 13th of January 2018 05:25:08 PM
Old 01-13-2018
Hi,

I'm thinking that perhaps there is no direct or equivalent character to translate these characters to in your destination character set, and so that's why they're being dropped, maybe ?

Some testing of my own. Firstly, all I did here was copy and paste the string you provided:

Code:
$ cat test
í, ó,
$ file test
test: UTF-8 Unicode text
$

and it was picked up as UTF-8, as you can see. Full disclosure: this was on a Slackware Linux 14.2 system.

So here's what happens when I try converting this to ASCII, and as mentioned I think it fails since these characters simply don't exist in any way in normal ASCII:

Code:
$ iconv -f=utf8 -t=ascii -o new.txt test.txt
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 0
$

However, if I tell iconv to transliterate only what it can, and drop what it can't, things seem to work, although I end up with question marks in the output (since there's nothing to transliterate to):

Code:
$ iconv -f=utf8 -t=ascii//TRANSLIT -o new.txt test.txt
$ cat new.txt
?, ?,
$

So I think that's the issue: they're being dropped or giving errors because there isn't anything in your destination character set that iconv regards as an acceptable replacement.

Hope this helps.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

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)
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