I'm trying to process some 8-bit text on my Debian system and it's giving me fits. Clearly some of the programs I'm piping things through aren't 8-bit aware. Can someone point me to a good listing of these and/or to a discussion of how to work around the limitations of the system.
Here's an example of what I'm doing. The input is an official Dutch word list called "woor-den.max" and the output is to be a compressed dictionary to be included with a free Scrabble clone I'm developing for the PalmOS platform. The words include a character (octal 0267) that indicates hyphenation. I want to pull it out. If in the bash shell (either running in emacs via shell mode or in xterm; it doesn't matter) I type # tr -d "\267" < woor-den.max tr does nothing. But if I save the same command as a bash shell script and execute it I get the desired result. Working with grep's the same way. This can't be an unfamiliar problem for those of you across the Atlantic. What's the best coping strategy? Thanks! --Eric House /****************************************************************************** * Sun .signature deleted: this isn't a Sun project! ******************************************************************************/
