Dos2UNIX formatting problem

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Hi,

I was trying to dos2unix a file that has some special characters but dos2unix converted those into different format. I am working on sun server.
I guess the default for dos2unix on sun server is ISO format .
Can i change the format so that it does the conversion in UTF format?
Because I think these characters are not covered in ISO format.

e.g.

Orig :

LCA;PZ0;CIRC;1035561;1;Main;1;2;FSC;DEFAUT;0.55� min:main

Changed after dos2unix :

LCA;PZ0;CIRC;1035561;1;Main;1;2;FSC;DEFAUT;0.55� min:main

Orig :

LCA;PZ0;CIRC;2070814;1;ILMV0711;1;2;GIL;DEFAUT;Tarif D�die F&F Monoprix

Changed after dos2unix :

LCA;PZ0;CIRC;2070814;1;ILMV0711;1;2;GIL;DEFAUT;Tarif D\211die F&F Monoprix

Kindly help..

Regards

Abhinav

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to replace/substitute dos2unix , I also tried:

perl -pe 's/\cM//'

but it is removing the euro sign from the file..

like

Orig :

LCA;PZ0;CIRC;1035561;1;Main;1;2;FSC;DEFAUT;0.55� min:main

Changed :

LCA;PZ0;CIRC;1035561;1;Main;1;2;FSC;DEFAUT;0.55  min:main

else everything is fine with this.

don't know how to handle it.

2

try this..

 
perl -pe 's/\r\n/\n/g' filename
3

i tried this too but same problem..
it is removing "euro" sign from the file.
I dont know why this is happening.

4

Did you consider the iconv or recode commands? Very powerful ...