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Re: ASCII file to UTF-8 file converter

To: Pedro Ferreira <pedro_nf@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ASCII file to UTF-8 file converter
From: Vasilis Vasaitis <vvas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:37:07 +0200
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:58:58AM -0800, Pedro Ferreira wrote:
> Please, what is the best tool to convert an ascii file
> with unicode character codes like this:
> U+3400
> U+3405
> to another UTF-8 file with the corresponding unicode
> characters?
> Many thanks!
> Pedro Ferreira

  Perl, of course! Try something like this:

	perl -pe 's/U\+([0-9A-Fa-f]{4})/pack "U", hex $1/ge'

  No wonder they call it the "UNIX swiss army chainsaw"...

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