Re: European chars to ascii

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 02:29:58AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-08-20 00:36:14 +0200, Almut Behrens wrote: > > P.S. Normally, you'd use iconv for encoding conversions. However, > > "iconv -f 8859_1 -t ASCII isolatin1-file" doesn't work, because ASCII > > can only represent a subset of c

Re: European chars to ascii

On 2005-08-20 00:36:14 +0200, Almut Behrens wrote: > P.S. Normally, you'd use iconv for encoding conversions. However, > "iconv -f 8859_1 -t ASCII isolatin1-file" doesn't work, because ASCII > can only represent a subset of characters present in 8859_1 -- which > makes iconv complain... recode is

Re: European chars to ascii

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:34:24AM -0400, Tong wrote: > > Is there any tools that can convert European characters to plain > 7bit-Ascii? > > E.g., ä => a, ö => o, etc. I don't know if there's a better tool, but I would do something like: $ tr 'äöüß' 'aous' ascii-out (simply extend the char li

European chars to ascii

Hi, Is there any tools that can convert European characters to plain 7bit-Ascii? E.g., ä => a, ö => o, etc. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]