Shell Programming and Scripting

hi

I am trying iconv on my linux machine for conversion of RUSSIAN to ENGLISH, but i am not able to get exact result.

i want to know what initial setting in linux machine we need to do to get desired output

I created sample russian file using google translate in CP866 endcoding
and full command is

Code:

iconv -f CP866 -t UTF-8 test.txt

and output is same as input i.e.

Code:

АБВГДЕЖЗИЙК

please suggest steps to do proper conversion.

Piyush

you want to 'translate' your text in another language or 'convert' into another encoding?

i want to 'translate' text i.e.

Code:

АБВГДЕЖЗИЙК...

to

Code:

abcdefghi...

---------- Post updated at 09:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:07 PM ----------

can anyone help me on this

Code:

kent$  echo "АБВГДЕЖЗИЙДЕЖЗИК"|sed 'y/АБВГДЕЖЗИЙК/abcdefghijk/'
abcdefghijefghik

Hey this can be options but it was just sample.

In real situation i will have 20-23 diffrent source file in diffrent character set encoding and i need to convert all of them to UTF-8.

All i want to know does iconv need some initial setup like language support etc or somthing else.

iconv changes the encoding, but not the content.
in your case, you could apply sed 'y/[allYourRussianLetters]/abcd...z/' command on all your 20-23 source files. to do the "translation"