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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Change encoding, no removing special chars. inconv Post 303011144 by mrreds on Saturday 13th of January 2018 09:40:17 PM
Old 01-13-2018
Thank you RudiC, drysdalk!

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SunOS 5.11
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file
command is just displaying:
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XML document
I need to convert any encoding to UTF8.

A customer is sending me files not having UTF8 (seems ANSI), I just need to assign UTF8 encoding to all files coming to my system.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

yaz-iconv

YAZ-ICONV(1)							     Commands							      YAZ-ICONV(1)

NAME

       yaz-iconv - YAZ Character set conversion utility

SYNOPSIS

       yaz-iconv [-f from] [-t to] [-v] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       yaz-iconv converts data in file in character set specified by from to output in character set as specified by to.

       This yaz-iconv utility similar to the iconv found on many POSIX systems (Glibc, Solaris, etc).

       If no file is specified, yaz-iconv reads from standard input.

OPTIONS

       -ffrom]
	   Specify the character set from of the input file. Should be used in conjunction with option -t.

       -tto]
	   Specify the character set of of the output. Should be used in conjunction with option -f.

       -v
	   Print more information about the conversion process.

ENCODINGS

       The yaz-iconv command and the API as defined in yaz/yaz-iconv.h is a wrapper for the library system call iconv. But YAZ' iconv utility also
       implements conversions on its own. The table below lists characters sets (or encodings). that are supported by YAZ. Each character set is
       marked with either encode or decode. If an encoding is encode-enabled YAZ may convert to to the designated encoding. If an encoding is
       decode-enabled, YAZ may convert from the designated encoding.

       marc8 (encode, decode)
	   The MARC8[1] encoding as defined by the Library of Congress. Most MARC21/USMARC records usees this encoding.

       marc8s (encode, decode)
	   Like MARC8 but with conversion prefers non-combined characters in the Latin-1 plane over combined characters.

       marc8lossy (encode)
	   Lossy encoding of MARC-8.

       marc8lossless (encode)
	   Lossless encoding of MARC8.

       utf8 (encode, decode)
	   The most commonly used UNICODE encoding on the Internet.

       iso8859-1 (encode, decode)
	   ISO-8859-1, AKA Latin-1.

       iso5426 (decode)
	   ISO 5426. Some MARC records (UNIMARC) uses this encoding.

       iso5428:1984 (encode, decode)
	   ISO 5428:1984.

       advancegreek (encode, decode)
	   An encoding for Greek used by some vendors (Advance).

       danmarc (decode)

	   Danmarc (in danish)[2] is an encoding based on UNICODE which is used for DanMARC2 records.

EXAMPLES

       The following command converts from ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) to UTF-8.

	       yaz-iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 -X <input.lst >output.lst

FILES

       prefix/bin/yaz-iconv

       prefix/include/yaz/yaz-iconv.h

SEE ALSO

       yaz(7) iconv(1)

NOTES

	1. MARC8
	   http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/speccharmarc8.html

	2. Danmarc (in danish)
	   http://www.kat-format.dk/danMARC2/Danmarc2.4.htm#felt+Indl.+4

YAZ 4.2.30							    04/16/2012							      YAZ-ICONV(1)
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