Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I have a script in ksh who I make a move from a File who is transfered from a another System.

So when I read this file under Unix HP , I cannot read the character ö or Ö .

A litlle Example :
I must can read Östereich but I read s^tereich

Can Anyone help me if there is a Unix command who can convert this character in the right character.

Thank a lot...

I don't understand the question at all, but it seems to involve extended character sets.

HP-UX and ksh both handle 8 bits characters fine. Here is a script to display the 8 bit characters...

Code:

#! /usr/bin/ksh

typeset -R1 dchar
typeset -i8 octal oincr ochar

octal=8#200

while ((octal < 8#220)) ; do
        oincr=0
        line=""
        while ((oincr <= 8#160)) ; do
                ((ochar=octal+oincr))
                dchar=$(echo \\0${ochar##??}\\c)
                line="${line}${ochar##??} $dchar    "
                ((oincr=oincr+8#20))
        done
        echo "$line"
        ((octal=octal+1))
done

exit 0

What happens when you run this script depends on the system that is actually drawing the characters on your desktop. There are several different standards for how 8 bit characters are displayed.

See this link to see some of them.

Hello,

When I run your script it display me this...

200 220 240 _ 260 ° 300 À 320 Ð 340 à 360 ð
201 221 241 ¡ 261 ± 301 Á 321 Ñ 341 á 361 ñ
202 222 242 ¢ 262 ² 302 Â 322 Ò 342 â 362 ò
203 223 243 £ 263 ³ 303 Ã 323 Ó 343 ã 363 ó
204
224 244 ¤ 264 ´ 304 Ä 324 Ô 344 ä 364 ô
205
225 245 ¥ 265 µ 305 Å 325 Õ 345 å 365 õ
206 226 246 ¦ 266 ¶ 306 Æ 326 Ö 346 æ 366 ö
207 227 247 § 267 · 307 Ç 327 × 347 ç 367 ÷
210 230 250 ¨ 270 ¸ 310 È 330 Ø 350 è 370 ø
211 231 251 © 271 ¹ 311 É 331 Ù 351 é 371 ù
212 232 252 ª 272 º 312 Ê 332 Ú 352 ê 372 ú
213 233 273 » 313 Ë 333 Û 353 ë 373 û
214 235 254 ¬ 274 ¼ 314 Ì 334 Ü 354 ì 374 ü
215 216 236 256 ® 276 ¾ 316 Î 336 Þ 356 î 376 þ
217 237 257 ¯ 277 ¿ 317 Ï 337 ß 357 ï 377 ÿ


So when I want to display directly from the keyboard the character ö it display v. It's the same when I use ALT 148 from the keyboard.

So can anyone help me ..

So thanks a lot...

Hi,
I am dealing with the same problem at the moment. When a name has an é or an ö or any letter like that, in unix it is displayed as \366. This is not ASCII code and i am trying to find out what it is and where i can find a standard for these characters.
Any ideas??

Tine