initial setup for iconv

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi

I am trying iconv on my linux machine for conversion of RUSSIAN to ENGLISH, but i am not able to get exact result.

i want to know what initial setting in linux machine we need to do to get desired output

I created sample russian file using google translate in CP866 endcoding
and full command is

iconv -f CP866 -t UTF-8 test.txt

and output is same as input i.e.

please suggest steps to do proper conversion.

Piyush

2

you want to 'translate' your text in another language or 'convert' into another encoding?

3

i want to 'translate' text i.e.

...

to

abcdefghi...

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can anyone help me on this

4 
kent$  echo ""|sed 'y//abcdefghijk/'
abcdefghijefghik
5

Hey this can be options but it was just sample.

In real situation i will have 20-23 diffrent source file in diffrent character set encoding and i need to convert all of them to UTF-8.

All i want to know does iconv need some initial setup like language support etc or somthing else.

6

iconv changes the encoding, but not the content.
in your case, you could apply sed 'y/[allYourRussianLetters]/abcd...z/' command on all your 20-23 source files. to do the "translation"