[9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode

[9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode

[Matthias Teege]

Moin,

I'm try to move my old textfiles from my unix servers
to plan9 server. In doing so I have problems to convert
iso-8559-1 to utf-8. First I try recode l1..u1 but the
result files aren't correct for plan9. Then I try tcs
from plan9 and the conversion is perfect.

The problem is, that I need a the modification time
unchanged. This is default in recode but tcs use create
a new file.

Is there any way to save the modification time without
a lot of scripting?

Many thanks
Matthias

Re: [9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode

[Scott Schwartz]

| iso-8559-1 to utf-8. First I try recode l1..u1 but the

Plan 9 uses utf-8.  "u1" should be "u8", if i read the info
file correctly.

Re: [9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode

[Matthias Teege]

u8 is what I used. It was only a typo
in my last mail.
Matthias

Re: [9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode

[David Presotto]

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From: Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:10:49 0000
Message-ID: <c833a9754788589770125e331a74f505@mteege.de>

Moin,

I'm try to move my old textfiles from my unix servers
to plan9 server. In doing so I have problems to convert
iso-8559-1 to utf-8. First I try recode l1..u1 but the
result files aren't correct for plan9. Then I try tcs
from plan9 and the conversion is perfect.

The problem is, that I need a the modification time
unchanged. This is default in recode but tcs use create
a new file.

Is there any way to save the modification time without
a lot of scripting?

Many thanks
Matthias

Re: [9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode

[Russ Cox]

> I'm try to move my old textfiles from my unix servers
> to plan9 server. In doing so I have problems to convert
> iso-8559-1 to utf-8. First I try recode l1..u1 but the
> result files aren't correct for plan9. Then I try tcs
> from plan9 and the conversion is perfect.
>
> The problem is, that I need a the modification time
> unchanged. This is default in recode but tcs use create
> a new file.
>
> Is there any way to save the modification time without
> a lot of scripting?

cat >cvt <<EOF
#!/bin/rc

t=`{mtime $1}
tcs -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < $1 >/tmp/a &&
mv $1 $1.old &&
mv /tmp/a $1 &&
touch -t $t(1) $1
EOF

Re: [9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode

[Scott Schwartz]

> tcs -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < $1 >/tmp/a &&

Non-unique temp filenames are a painful thing.

a=`{mktemp}
tcs ... >$a &&

Re: [9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode

[boyd, rounin]

From: "Scott Schwartz" <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
>:..
> Non-unique temp filenames are a painful thing.

sissie

Re: [9fans] iso-8559-1 to unicode

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> tcs -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < $1 >/tmp/a &&

While we are on the subject, it appears that tcs has been ported to
other OS. What has it been tested on?