Re: URL conversion from %?? to UTF-8

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:45:18PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> On 2009-09-19 08:39 (+0900), Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for a method to convert URL with non-ascii character 
> >
> > from
> >
> >   http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Param%C3%A8tres_r%C3%A9gionaux
> >
> > to
> >
> >   http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramètres_régionaux
> >
> > with some short script or command.  What is the easiest way?
> 
> The simplest is probably a script like this:
> 
>     #!/bin/bash
>     printf '%b\n' "${1//%/\\x}"
> 
> Give URL as the first argument.

Good idea!  Thanks.

If I use dash,  this does not work....

$ cat  urlutf8
#!/bin/dash
/usr/bin/printf '%b\n' "$(/usr/bin/printf "%s" $1 |sed 's/\%/\\x/g')"
$ ./urlutf8
"http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Param%C3%A8tres_r%C3%A9gionaux";
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramètres_régionaux

Not bad either.

I will use this for my Debian Reference build script.