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Re: How to use the symbol § and ¥ in HP-UX environment

 
SivaOra1
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‎06-29-2018 01:54 AM

‎06-29-2018 01:54 AM

How to use the symbol § and ¥ in HP-Unix environment

Hello,

Kindly advise on how to use the symbol § and ¥ in HP-Unix environment

COLUMNDELIMITER=§

STRINGENCLOSURE=¥

 

Thanks,

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Dennis Handly
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‎07-16-2018 11:05 AM - edited ‎07-16-2018 11:07 AM

‎07-16-2018 11:05 AM - edited ‎07-16-2018 11:07 AM

Re: How to use the symbol § and ¥ in HP-UX environment

To use multibyte characters you must first select a locale that supports them.

See "locale -a".  Typically picking one with ".utf8" will work, like en_US.utf8.

Then you "export LANG=en_US.utf8".

You may have to have the International product installed:  swlist -l product International

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