file conversion utility sought: from isolatin (8859-1) to utf8

[Robert Schmidt]

Ralf Hauser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are there any tools like d2u or u2d for UTF-8 for cygwin?
 > ...
> 
> A starting point might be
> http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_kfd8tk88g/perl_unicode_en ?

Not particularly cygwin related, but anyway...
This is a better start:
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/lib/Encode.html

   #!/usr/bin/perl
   # iso2utf8.pl
   use Encode;

   while(<STDIN>){
     print encode("utf8", decode("iso-8859-1", $_));
   }

Then

   #!/bin/sh
   mkdir -p utf8
   for FILE in $* ; do iso2utf8.pl < $FILE > utf8/$FILE ; done

If you're sure you want in-place, finish off with

   mv utf8/* .

If you need to handle a hierarchy of files, you need to fiddle with find 
  -print0 | xargs -0, or keep it all in perl.  I'm not a perl wiz,


Cheers,
Rob


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