On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:58:58AM -0800, Pedro Ferreira wrote: > Please, what is the best tool to convert an ascii file > with unicode character codes like this: > U+3400 > U+3405 > to another UTF-8 file with the corresponding unicode > characters? > Many thanks! > Pedro Ferreira
Perl, of course! Try something like this: perl -pe 's/U\+([0-9A-Fa-f]{4})/pack "U", hex $1/ge' No wonder they call it the "UNIX swiss army chainsaw"... -- Vasilis Vasaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't do drugs. Santa Claus is watching." -- winamp.com -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/