Unicode files

[Randall R Schulz]

Clancy,

Perl has some Unicode modules and Vim (both Cygwin and stand-alone) will 
edit Unicode files.

Most (maybe all?) Gnu text tools are ASCII only. Apropos turns up the Perl 
modules plus something called "luit." Check it out. Perhaps it might be 
useful to you.

Randall Schulz


At 21:18 2003-01-12, Clancy Malcolm wrote:
>Can cygwin programs like grep process a unicode file?
>
>I have a Windows 2000 backup log file which seems to be a unicode file.
>When I cat the file under cygwin it displays with spaces between every
>second character: e.g.
>
>ÿ_B a c k u p   S t a t u s
>  O p e r a t i o n :   B a c k u p
>  A c t i v e   b a c k u p   d e s t i n a t i o n :   4 m m   D D S
>  M e d i a   n a m e :   " T S C 4 - 2 0 0 3 - 0 1 - 1 3 - 2 - 3 5 p "
>
>When I cat in under linux it displays as a normal text file.  I have a
>script which grep's for particular patterns and emails matching lines, but
>it won't work with these log files.
>
>Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Clancy Malcolm


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