HPUX text file character set conversion

[mitra_1]

Hi

I am facing a vexing memory loss.
I had once used a command line utility in HPUX 11.11 which detected character sets of text files and also converted text files from one character set to another. I don't recall now the name of the command.

Please suggest any standard utility. All I can remember is that the command name contained "conv" substring. A man conv returns the C library call, not a command line program.

Thanks in advance,
Mitra

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Mitra:

Perhaps 'iconv(1)':

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/iconv.1.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I suspect that you are talking about the "dd" command; you might have been conv(erting) EBCDIC to ASCII, for example. Man dd for details.

[mitra_1]

Thanks All!!
really appreciate the blazing fast response

got it, it was iconv ! :)

I had used it convert european char sets to iso8859 at a previous project.

[mitra_1]

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