Re: diacriticals from terminal to file and back on WinXP


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Re: diacriticals from terminal to file and back on WinXP

by sgt (Deacon)

on Mar 17, 2008 at 20:40 UTC ( [id://674638]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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humm might be a simple codepage issue. I have a spanish ed. of windows xp. Using a simple iconv wrapper...

% steph@ape (/home/stephan) %
% echo ëäöé          
ëäöé

% steph@ape (/home/stephan) %
% echo ëäöé | icv    
Ùõ÷Ú

% steph@ape (/home/stephan) %
% echo ëäöé | icv -db
.loop: entered debug mode!
.loop: []
.icv default-mode
.iconv -c -f CP850 -t ISO-8859-1
Ùõ÷Ú
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cheers hth --stephan