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invalid multi-byte character in shell

ashoka — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:27:00 GMT

Hi,
I got stuck up with an error "invalid multi-byte character" in a shell script. Basically I have changed locale to spanish utf8. I'm using HPUX 11.23. Already my machine is patched up with PHCO_36506. Do I need to install any other patches to overcome this problem.

Thanks in Advance
S. Ashok Kumar.

Re: invalid multi-byte character in shell

Dennis Handly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:29:14 GMT

That's the latest shell patch. Do you need more locale patches.
Also, can you attach a script that duplicates it?
Was it sh that failed or some application?

Re: invalid multi-byte character in shell

ashoka — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:45:52 GMT

Dennis,

Thanks for your reply. Already that machine has Spanish locale.
Basically we have shell script, in which some binaries get appended to the end. Script will extract those binaries and use that binary for installation.
Today I found out that, when I remove the "echo" statements, script exection is success. But we want "echo" statement to log the messages to log file.
Please give suggestion, whatz going wrong?

Thanks
S. Ashok Kumar.

Re: invalid multi-byte character in shell

Peter Nikitka — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:22:06 GMT

Hi,

short question: Did you quote the strings?
I would try something like
echo 'actualizaciÃ Â³n'

mfG Peter

Re: invalid multi-byte character in shell

Dennis Handly — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:12:19 GMT

>Basically we have shell script, in which some binaries get appended to the end.

Of the script? That's going to cause problems unless you are in the American Nerd locale, C.

>Script will extract those binaries and use that binary for installation.

You should really be using shar(1) to add them to the end.

>when I remove the "echo" statements, script execution is success.

Does it fail with just the echo but without the binaries?

Do you have an example of what fails?

Re: invalid multi-byte character in shell

ashoka — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:31:00 GMT

Dennis and Peter,

Thanks for your reply. "shar" solved my issue.
Dennis thanks once again for giving this valuable suggestion.

-Ashok