Hey,
Is there anyway I anks,
Pocha
Usually there is a way.
You could use something like
echo "Hell�!" | sed 's/�/oe/g'
Since you did not show how your file looks like, I can only guess, but this sed thing up there is universal so you exchange the � and oe just vs. the letters you want to change.
sorry
Thanks Zaxxon,
You may be familiar with
[:lower:]
[:upper:]
But there is also in some unix flavors
[:alnum:] printable characters, including space
[:cntrl:] control characters
[:print:] printable characters
Perhaps a
tr -d "[:cntrl:]"
might help?
it doesn't help joe. i just tried.
Does iconv work? (convert to another locale?)
i tried it says invalid characters found
it is a ascii text
a simple sed command works as you'll know but do u ' ll hv any clue hw to tk cr of so many foreign characters. Please gv me a clue.
this might work, this should remove all characters except those listed.:
sed 's/[^A-Za-z0-9 ]//g' /path/to/your/file > /path/to/newfile
EDIT: had to add a space inside [^A-Za-z0-9 ] otherwise it deleted all spaces... 
We can't tell what is in the file. If it is not a foreign language then try to remove all "weird characters".
tr -dc '[:print:]' < inputfile
If that does not do it then
/* file should be named badchar.c */
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
int ch=0;
while(fgetc(stdin)!=EOF)
if(ch<128 ) fprintf(stdout, "%c", ch);
return 0;
}
Your c compiler is either cc or gcc so I use [g]cc below -- you pick.
[g]cc badchar.c -o badchar
to run the program do this
badchar < badinputfile > newfile
Ikon, I tried that syntax that break the file totally. Anyways thanks so much for your concern.tk cr.