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Command similar to ascii for ascii extended and/or for unicode?
ascii command in Linux is fast and great. It allows us to search for a character or for a code point and returns all relevant results for a given search. Is there something similar for ASCII extended (...
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Chaotic Command-line Interface Layout
When I type a long command on a command-line interface. Something strange may happen in the layout. The characters I typed don't show in lines correctly. Instead, they merge into 1 line or overwrite ...
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Is there any ligature-aware alternative for "pdfgrep" in command line?
I always use "pdfgrep" to search inside of multiple PDF files from the command line. But I met a problem: This ligature character "fi" (see https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FB01)...
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Question marks in my kali linux shell
I am trying to do active reconnaissance in Kali Linux (4.19.0-kali3-amd64) using xprobe2 tool. So I typed the command xprobe2 espn.com (for example). I know that espn.com use "OpenBSD" ...
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Converting text file encodings
I have been having a horrible time with text files that mostly have cp1252 encoding, but some don't. When I try to iterate over them in Python, I'll hit a file with some other weird encoding and the ...
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Convert binary encoding that head and Notepad can read to UTF-8
I have a CSV file which is in binary character set but I have to convert to UTF-8 to process in HDFS (Hadoop). I have used the below command to check characterset. file -bi filename.csv Output : ...
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Generating 'ASCII-art' banners with arrows
I recently discovered figlet which generates ASCII-art banners. Joy! ... but, alas, I want a banner with an arrow on it. Now... $ figlet unicode → arrow _ _ //\ ...
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Prevent tail from modifying the charset of the terminal
In a Linux terminal (CentOS) I am using the command tail --follow=name my-rolling-file.log in order to see the logs of my application. Sometimes in the log, there is some binary data dumped (I dump ...
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Incorrect output from cp, rm, and so on
When I run, say, cp, I get output like the following: # cp -v Foo Bar âFooâ -> âBarâ What's up with the weird â characters? Why is the shell doing this? It looks like some kind of strange encoding ...
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Character encoding issue with my linux install?
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04.4 64 bits, all seemed to be ok, when I started to work on console I noticed: that I couldn't get some accented characters typed in to the console, for example, if I tried ...
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How to specify attachment encoding in mutt command line?
I'm trying to send an email with attachment from a perl script. First, I create the attachment (an xml file): open(XMLFILE, ">:utf8", $xmlfile); print XMLFILE "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"...
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Characters encodings supported by more, cat and less
I have a text file encoded as following according to file: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators This file contains French's text with accents. My shell is able to display accent and emacs in ...
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Convert ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 using OSX' .bash_profile
When running certain rails scripts in OSX' Terminal, I get warnings such as the following: unable to convert "\xA9" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for tmp/cache/assets/CC7/4D0/sprockets%...
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How to convert to HTML code?
Are there any scripts that can convert between text (e.g. <hi>) and the html entities version (<hi>) like this website does? Or at least a PHP file?
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Converting text into ASCII/ISO-8859-1
I'm looking for some tool that can convert text, ideally from UTF-8 (but ISO-8859-2 and WINDOWS-1250 would be fine) into ASCII/ISO-8859-1? I have seen some online transliteration tools but I need ...
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