topic Re: UTF-8 problem with XML files in Operating System - Linux

UTF-8 problem with XML files

George_206 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:29:14 GMT

We have an HP 9000 server running HP 11.0.

We have a problem with some xml files, that are created automatically from an application, but are not saved in UTF-8 encoding. Unfortunatelly, we do cannot modify the application.

So, we download them using ftp, edit them with notepad and save them as utf-8. Then we upload them to HP-UX and they are ok.

Can anyone suggest any script for automatic conversion to UTF-8 inside the HP-UX, instead of the manually procedure?

Thanks,
George.

Re: UTF-8 problem with XML files

Peter Godron — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:30:36 GMT

George,
you have missed out a very important point: What is the original format ?

At this point I can only suggest GNU recode, av ailable free in HPUX porting Archive.
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/recode-3.6/

Re: UTF-8 problem with XML files

George_206 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:34:07 GMT

Can I use iconv instead in a more easy way?

Re: UTF-8 problem with XML files

Peter Godron — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:04:49 GMT

George,
sorry, I assumed you had already looked at iconv.

If iconv can handle the input and output character set then yes, use iconv as per example on man page.
"iconv -f -t foo > bar"

Re: UTF-8 problem with XML files

Peter Godron — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:46:24 GMT

George,
how are you getting on with this problem ?
Did my suggestions help ?

If this problem is fixed, could you please complete the thread by awarding points to helpful answers and summarising the solution for you.

This will help resolution of similar problems in the future.

Re: UTF-8 problem with XML files

George_206 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:01:15 GMT

Dear Peter,
We used iconv finall, and seems to work fine.
Geogre.

Re: UTF-8 problem with XML files

George_206 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:03:03 GMT

ok.