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# 1  
Old 04-02-2015
Copying a file with UTF char on UNIX server
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,
# 2  
Old 04-02-2015
Show your code please. Without that I'd only be making wild guesses.
# 3  
Old 04-03-2015
You will need to make sure that your terminal/editor uses an utf8 locale. The locale command will show your settings and specifically you want to set LC_CTYPE to an utf8 locale (for example en_US.UTF-8).

How to go about it depends on your system (for debian linux: https://wiki.debian.org/Locale).
# 4  
Old 04-06-2015
$ locale
Code:
LANG=
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=


When I try to post UTF chat.. in a vi editior. It still changes to
Code:
.

# 5  
Old 04-06-2015
If you save that and view it with xdd/od -x, does it come up as 2e ? If it saves as two bytes instead, it is a font problem.
# 6  
Old 04-09-2015
hi varun,

- what is your unix system ?
- are you in console or term utility ?
- and please check endoding def for vi ? (:set fileencoding)
# 7  
Old 04-13-2015
Hi, I am using a solaris machine.

I am using a terminal (Putty)

set fileencoding is not a valid options.

Please help I really need to get this going
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