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# 1  
Old 11-10-2008
foreign characters in flat file
Hey,

Is there anyway I anks,

Pocha
Last edited by pochaman; 11-14-2008 at 09:06 PM..
# 2  
Old 11-10-2008
Usually there is a way.

You could use something like
Code:
echo "Hellö!" | sed 's/ö/oe/g'

Since you did not show how your file looks like, I can only guess, but this sed thing up there is universal so you exchange the ö and oe just vs. the letters you want to change.
# 3  
Old 11-10-2008
sorry
Last edited by pochaman; 11-10-2008 at 02:08 PM..
# 4  
Old 11-10-2008
Thanks Zaxxon,
Last edited by pochaman; 11-14-2008 at 09:07 PM..
# 5  
Old 11-10-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver Perhaps with one of the Character classes?
You may be familiar with
[:lower:]
[:upper:]

But there is also in some unix flavors
[:alnum:] printable characters, including space
[:cntrl:] control characters
[:print:] printable characters

Perhaps a
Code:
tr -d "[:cntrl:]"

might help?
# 6  
Old 11-10-2008
it doesn't help joe. i just tried.
# 7  
Old 11-10-2008
Does iconv work? (convert to another locale?)
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