Re: ASCII file to UTF-8 file converter

2002-03-26 Thread Vasilis Vasaitis 

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...

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Re: ASCII file to UTF-8 file converter

2002-03-26 Thread Pedro Ferreira 


Works fine, thank you!


--- Oyvind A. Holm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 2002-03-26 06:58-0800 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?
 
 This Perl script should do the job:
 
 == CUT HERE ==
 
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 


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