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# 1  
Old 03-26-2012
File with German Umlaut
Hi

I have a txt file i saved in windows with german umlauts

When listing the file in Solaris 10 I can't see the umlauts

I tried to export LANG to de, at and anything else in /usr/lib/locale but it didn't help

Can anybody help out please?

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 03-26-2012
It is probably a UTF-16 text file, which can't be understand by any usual tools. You'll need to convert it to a character set your system can understand. UTF-8 may do since it's compatible with ASCII for the most part.

Code:
iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 original-file > new-file

# 3  
Old 03-27-2012
Thanks Corona but this command turned my file into data type rather than ascii so i can not even process it anymore

any ideas?Smilie

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Code:
xxxxxx:/tmp$ file FILENAME
FILENAME:    ascii text
xxxxx:/tmp$ file FILENAME.UTF-8
FILENAME.UTF-8:      data

# 4  
Old 03-27-2012
Your file was UTF-8 in the first place, then, and converting it mangled it.

Not being able to see certain UTF-8 characters sounds like a fonts problem.
# 5  
Old 03-27-2012
Perhaps this is just a ssh client issue.

When you setup Translation (to UTF8) in putty and connect to machine, can you see german chars when you cat the file ?
# 6  
Old 03-28-2012
Thanks guys. Yes i changed the Translation in Putty and i could see the chars properly. Thanks
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