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- From: robert@sys.sweden.dg.com (Robert Claeson)
- Subject: Re: DOS code page to ISO Unix utility?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:06:59 GMT
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- Bob Fillmore 992-2832 writes
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- | Can anyone point me at a Unix utility which will convert a flat
- | ASCII file exported out of WordPerfect and FTP'd to Unix?
- |
- | In particular, I want it to convert french character codes
- | from code page 863 to ISO Latin-1.
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- If you're running anything that resembles an System V Release 4.x system,
- the "iconv" command will perform conversions among the code sets supported
- on your system for you. I use "iconv -f PC850 -t 88591 | tr -d \015" to
- convert from WP textfiles to ISO 8859-1 files.
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