Conversion of french accents in Korn shell.

[Adnane_1]

Hello Folks,
Did anyone have a function or a script that convert the frecnh accents?

P.S:
I'm using HP UNIX script with awk to create a file.

Thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The accents (or more properly, the characters with accents) have nothing to do with UNIX and everything to do with the display device (e.g. terminal emulator) and the character set it uses. Generally what is required is a new character set for the terminal, printer, etc. There is a LANG setting for UNIX. Man 5 environ for those details.

If you do want to do a character by character translation then tr will do it quite nicely but the real problem is that
ASCII 65 (Normally "A") will display "A" using 1 character set and something quite different using another character set. To the computer the byte is still simply 65dec or 41hex.

[Arunvijai_4]

Actually, this is not about conversion, but gives more information about langs in HP-UX

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=754343

-Arun

[Adnane_1]

Hello Folks,
Just a clarification:
I'm reading a record from an execution of a Stored Procedure, then I'm creating a file in a KORN Shell script. I can't use the tr command because I'm just trying to convert one specific column of my file. Since Im' using AWK to format the file, I'm looking for a function using the sed command to do the conversion.
Did anyone have this function??

Thanks for your help.

Adnane

[Adnane_1]

Sorry I meant the sub function not the sed.

Thanks