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# 1  
Old 11-18-2011
Convert File Type - AIX
Hi,

I have a file with French characters inside and for some reasons I need to convert it so ASCII format like below :

From
file 1.txt
1.txt: data or International Language text

T
file 1.txt
1.txt: ascii text


Please advise how can I do that in AIX.

TIA
Last edited by Nick1971; 11-18-2011 at 11:34 AM..
# 2  
Old 11-18-2011
What's the character encoding?

Plain ASCII doesn't have things French uses, like é. What should it do for characters that have no translation?
# 3  
Old 11-18-2011
Hi,
The problem here is am not sure the what is the characer encoding. Locale shows :

LANG=en_US
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_ALL=

I should be able to use iconv to convert to UTF-8 if i know the source encoding.
# 4  
Old 11-18-2011
Try this:
Code:
export LC_ALL=C.iso88591

# 5  
Old 11-18-2011
this will onle be applied to new file?
# 6  
Old 11-18-2011
And
Code:
export NLS_LANG=french_france.we8iso8859p1

# 7  
Old 11-18-2011
It will affect your environment...
I cant pronounce myself for the rest since I have a to your eyes an exotic keyboard ( Sw-FR ; Swiss-french...)....
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