problems changing character encoding of files [SOLVED]

Hiisi very-cool at rambler.ru
Fri Aug 21 03:36:55 UTC 2009


> The appended script may be helpful, a quick combo of Perl and iconv; 
it
> makes conversions between UTF-8 and the main Cyrillic encodings. Hack
> it to your convenience; I have no pride in authorship.
>
> Advice from Perl gearheads accepted w/o question.
>
> Max Pyziur
> pyz at brama.com

Thanks Max!
Your script is a nice example of perl scripting. It would be useful for 
people who often change file encoding. My solution was:
for f in folder/*; do
	iconv -f koi8-r -t utf8 $f > tmp.tmp
	mv tmp.tmp $f
done
in a bash script.
Respectfully
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