Re: European chars to ascii

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

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 better, using the -f option:

ay:~> latin1
20  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
40 @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
60 `abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
A0  ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬­®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿
C0 ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß
E0 àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ

ay:~> latin1 | recode -f latin1..ascii
20  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
40 @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
60 `abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
A0  !clbSS"(c)a<<not-(R)^2^3'uP.,^1o>>1/41/23/4?
C0 `A"AAAEC`E`ID~N`O"OxO`U
E0 `a"aaaec`e`id~n`o"o:o`u

ay:~> latin1 | recode -f latin1..text
20  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
40 @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
60 `abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
A0  ``''
C0 A`A^A"C,E`E'E^E"I^I"O`O^O"U`U^U"
E0 a`a^a"c,e`e'e^e"i^i"o`o^o"u`u^u"

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