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How to change ISO-8859 text with CRLF line terminators
I am trying to change the encoding of a text file to UTF-8. I am new to Unix so any help would be great. I am not sure how to code it properly with recode function.
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testdisk utility reports nonexistent files from a exFAT drive used with Windows - why?
I tried to recover lost files from an exFAT thumb drive with the testdisk package on linux. It was very good at finding deleted files. However as I went through the entries, I saw weird entries. The ...
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head and grep display text different than gedit
I try to get some information from log file, but I get numbers using grep and I want get text like I see in gedit. Result of file command: ASCII text, with CR, LF line terminators Also I checked that ...
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Unable to change file encoding to utf-8
I modified a UTF-8 encoded xml file using vi editor and saved it. I'm on Redhat Linux 7.9 I checked the file encoding after the changes and found it to be us-ascii file --mime-encoding tmpfiles/08/...
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Weird characters in output file [duplicate]
I opened the output file created from a script in my terminal and the output file is fine, shows the output i want. cat 2_val.txt 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 ...
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Can I determine at runtime the available NLS character sets?
I can find the list of the kernel's supported filesystem types in /proc/filesystems. Is there a way to determine which character sets I'm able to use with the mount options iocharset or nls, other ...
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Finding text file's encoding
The iconv command may change file encodings. But is there a command to find the file encoding of a certain text file. Also, I am trying to find what file encoding standards each country use. So that I ...
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how to remove non-standard end of line characters in bash? [closed]
Sometimes, when passing the name of files from a config.txt into a pipe, I get weird problems of non-existing files. I fear it is due to some non-standard end of line characters. I am using kate as ...
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Decode Cyrillic strings
How to decode strings on a text files like this: Âèòàëèé This analyzer (https://2cyr.com/decode/?lang=en) detected the source encoding as WINDOWS-1251 + displayed as ISO-8859-1, and successfully ...
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How to fix malformatted special characters in Pop OS, that occoured after an system crash?
This afternoon my computer (operating Pop OS!) was not reacting to keyboard or mouse interactions, I tried everything but couldn't find out why this happened. So I did a cold start, I assume the ...
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Replace character in file based on position
I work on the encoding of a file, from unknown-8bit to UTF-8. but I got an error message. iconv: illegal input sequence at position 136828 So I did a search in the file with the position like this : ...
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Broken pipe symbol from SQL changing in Linux
I am migrating Solaris code to Linux and have problem with broken pipe symbol used inside sql scripts. There are multiple SQL scripts (and output it produces) with broken pipe symbol (¦) which works ...
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How to fix strange characters in my .txt file?
I edited a .txt file in Visual Studio on Windows and then copied that into a HPC server. The file looks fine to me at first, But when I opened it in the linux environment, weird characters showed up (...
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If I know the corresponding encoded bytes to some characters, how can I determine matching charsets?
I have a few files where the filenames obviously use the wrong charset. As soon as I know which charset is being used, I can use convmv to convert it to UTF-8. From the rest of the filename, I can ...
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UTF8 Character Makes File Inaccessible
If I run: scp [email protected]:/home/me/cömmön_file.jpg /home/me/ from my remote server I get: scp: /home/me/cömmön_file.jpg: No such file or directory If I swap out the utf8 characters though ...
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