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Kyle Banerjee
Kyle Banerjee

Reputation: 2824

Converting escaped characters to UTF-8 in bash

I have a large text file containing sequences such as

\u02BBUtthay\u0101n h\u01E3ng Ch\u0101t Khao Yai

However, they render exactly as above. How do I convert this so people just see UTF-8? I would prefer to process the files at the command line if possible.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1905

Answers (1)

Plasmarob
Plasmarob

Reputation: 1401

use the printf command.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man3/printf.3.html

you can wrap it in $() to use as a variable if needed, too.

For example, 

echo $(printf '\u02BBUtthay\u0101n h\u01E3ng Ch\u0101t Khao Yai')

this outputs: ʻUtthayān hǣng Chāt Khao Yai

Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 4

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