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Old 12-17-2013, 08:26 AM   #1
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Question Any way to substitute one character with couple of characters using tr program?


Hello
I need simple encoding conversion in bash script.
But I need to convert to UTF-8 where national characters consist of two bytes.
Is there any way make such substitution with tr ?
 
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tr only works with single-byte characters. Use a recent version of sed instead.
 
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Old 12-17-2013, 02:43 PM   #3
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tr only works with single-byte characters. Use a recent version of sed instead.
Thanks! I see I have to refector some scripts.
 
  


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