utility to convert from ansi to unicode

[emagzz]

Hi all,

I need to convert many text file from ANSI to UNICODE.
Some body knows if there is a free utility that can do this from the
command line
so as I can use it inside a batch file.

Thank you
Emanuele

[CBFalconer]

emagzz wrote:

>
I need to convert many text file from ANSI to UNICODE.
Some body knows if there is a free utility that can do this from the
command line
so as I can use it inside a batch file.

short int widechar;
unsigned char ch;

do {
ch = getnext();
widechar = ch;
putwide(widechar);
while (ch);

assuming (sizeof(short) 1) and that strings are '\0' terminated.
No worries about endianess with the above. Depends on the known
range of ANSI chars.

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Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

emagzz <eg*****@kinomat.itwrote:

I need to convert many text file from ANSI to UNICODE.

If the files are "clean" ANSI and you want to go to UTF-8 no
conversion is needed.

Some body knows if there is a free utility that can do this from the
command line so as I can use it inside a batch file.

What makes you think that a newsgroup about the C programming
laguage would be a good place to ask this?

<off topic>
See e.g. http://www.gnu.org/software/recode/recode.html
</off topic>
Regards, Jens
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[Leslie Kis-Adam]

emagzz wrote:

Hi all,

I need to convert many text file from ANSI to UNICODE.
Some body knows if there is a free utility that can do this from the
command line
so as I can use it inside a batch file.

Thank you
Emanuele

Umm. I think it's a little bit off-topic. 8-|

Laszlo Kis-Adam

[Keith Thompson]

"emagzz" <eg*****@kinomat.itwrites:

I need to convert many text file from ANSI to UNICODE.
Some body knows if there is a free utility that can do this from the
command line
so as I can use it inside a batch file.

What do you mean by ANSI? (That's the name of the US standards body;
there are a plethora of ANSi standards.)

If you mean ASCII, that's a 7-bit code. There are several encodings
of Unicode. And I don't think this is the right newsgroup for your
question anyway; I'm not entirely sure what is. Perhaps
comp.programming?

--
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[Keith Thompson]

CBFalconer <cb********@yahoo.comwrites:

emagzz wrote:

>>
I need to convert many text file from ANSI to UNICODE.
Some body knows if there is a free utility that can do this from the
command line
so as I can use it inside a batch file.

short int widechar;
unsigned char ch;

do {
ch = getnext();
widechar = ch;
putwide(widechar);
while (ch);

assuming (sizeof(short) 1) and that strings are '\0' terminated.
No worries about endianess with the above. Depends on the known
range of ANSI chars.

What the heck is "putwide"? There's no such function in standard C.
In fact, there appears to be no such function at all. A Google search
turned up just one hit, and that appears to be the result of some
blanks being left out of an old index on docs.sun.com.

--
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San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

[Richard Tobin]

In article <ln************@nuthaus.mib.org>,
Keith Thompson <ks***@mib.orgwrote:

>I need to convert many text file from ANSI to UNICODE.

>What do you mean by ANSI? (That's the name of the US standards body;
there are a plethora of ANSi standards.)

He probably means the Windows 1252 encoding, commonly known
(apparently) as "ANSI"[*]. It's the same as ISO Latin-1, but with a
random bunch of printable characters instead of the C1 controls. If
it was Latin-1, the conversion to Unicode would be trivial, since the
code points are the same, but it isn't, so it isn't.
[*] I think it stands for "A Non-Standard Incoding".

-- Richard
--
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

[CBFalconer]

Keith Thompson wrote:

CBFalconer <cb********@yahoo.comwrites:

>emagzz wrote:

>>>
I need to convert many text file from ANSI to UNICODE.
Some body knows if there is a free utility that can do this from
the command line so as I can use it inside a batch file.

short int widechar;
unsigned char ch;

do {
ch = getnext();
widechar = ch;
putwide(widechar);
while (ch);

assuming (sizeof(short) 1) and that strings are '\0' terminated.
No worries about endianess with the above. Depends on the known
range of ANSI chars.

What the heck is "putwide"? There's no such function in standard C.
In fact, there appears to be no such function at all. A Google search
turned up just one hit, and that appears to be the result of some
blanks being left out of an old index on docs.sun.com.

getnext and putwide are shorthand for whatever the OP wants to do
to get the input and dump the output. I thought it was obvious.
Guess not.

--
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Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <45***************@yahoo.com>,
CBFalconer <cb********@maineline.netwrote:
....

>getnext and putwide are shorthand for whatever the OP wants to do
to get the input and dump the output. I thought it was obvious.
Guess not.

*Nothing* is obvious to KT. The guy is dumber than three bags of
hammers.

[Nelu]

emagzz wrote:

Hi all,

I need to convert many text file from ANSI to UNICODE.
Some body knows if there is a free utility that can do this from the
command line
so as I can use it inside a batch file.

This is off-topic here.

On my Linux system there's a utility called uniconv. *man
unicode* will tell you what it does. You can either ask in a
unicode group if there is one or a Linux/UNIX group. I don't know
if the utility exists for other environments and I have no idea
how it works. I heard about it when I was switching gentoo to UTF-8.

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