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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Dears,
I have a shell script - working perfectly on Oracle Linux - that detects the encoding (the charset to be exact) of the files in a specified directory using the "file" command (The file command outputs the charset in Linux, but doesn't do that in AIX), then if the file isn't a UTF-8 text... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to develop a script which will work on a source UTF-8 file and perform one or more of the following
It will accept the target encoding as an argument e.g. US-ASCII or ISO-8859-1, etc
1. It should replace all occurrences of characters outside target character set by " " (space) or... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to run a SQL which check for special UTF char in DB. When I try to copy that in UNIX file it changes it to some wierd chat. How can in retain the UTF chars in my script?
e.g. ο|π|ρ|σ|τ|υ|φ|χ|ψ
Any help will be appriciated.
Thanks, (14 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all
i have utf-8 file that i try to convert to WINDOWS-1251 on linux
without any success
the file name is utf-8 when i try to do :
file -bi test.txt
it gives me :
text/plain; charset=utf-8
when i try to convert the file i do :
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Sometimes we recieve some excel files containing French/Japanese characters over the mail, and these files are manually transferred to the server by using SFTP (security is not a huge concern here). The data is changed to text format before transferring it using Notepad.
Problem is: When saving... (4 Replies)
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6. Red Hat
Hello,
I am trying to convert a 7bit ASCII file to UTF-8.
I have used iconv before though it can't recognize it for some reason and says unknown file encoding.
When I used ascii2uni package with different package, ./ascii2uni -a K -a I -a J -a X test_file > new_test_file
It still... (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi all,
At present a file from AS400 system is being FTPed to an AIX system.
Now, a similar file needs to be sent from our Unix box (Solaris)
Is there any tool available which does the conversion in Unix from UTF-8 to EBCDIC?
Any suggestions/ pointers are really appreciated.
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I have a non-ascii character (Ŵ), which can be represented in UTF-8 encoding as equivalent hex value (\xC5B4). Is there a function in unix to convert this hex value back to display the charcter ? (10 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm using shell scripting in Applescript. When searching a file with the ANSEL character set (for GEDCOM files) using (grep '1 CHAR ANSEL' filepath) gives the expected result. When searching a UNICODE formatted file (utf-16), searching for text known to exist in the file using (grep '1 CHAR... (4 Replies)
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10. Programming
While working with russian text under FreeBSD&MySQL I need to convert a string from MySQL to the Unicode format.
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