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ClaudioMeinberg
ClaudioMeinberg

Reputation: 11

Text file encoding

I'm having a problem trying to read in windows a CSV file generated in MAC.

My question is how can I convert the encoding to UTF-8 or even ISO-8859-1.

I've already tried iconv with no success.

Inside "vim" I can understand that in this file linebreaks are marked with ^M and the accent ã is marked with <8b>, Ç = <82> and so on.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 156

Answers (1)

Esailija
Esailija

Reputation: 140228

To convert from encoding a to encoding b, you need to know what encoding a is.

Given that

ã is marked with <8b>, Ç = <82>

encoding a is very likely Mac OS Roman.

So call iconv with macintosh* as from argument, and utf-8 as to argument.

*try macroman, x-mac-roman etc if macintosh is not found

Upvotes: 1

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