UTF-8 to EBCDIC conversion in UNIX

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Hi all,

At present a file from AS400 system is being FTPed to an AIX system.
Now, a similar file needs to be sent from our Unix box (Solaris)

Is there any tool available which does the conversion in Unix from UTF-8 to EBCDIC?

Any suggestions/ pointers are really appreciated.

Thanks,
Sridhar

2

Do you have iconv installed?

3

Under Linux, my man pages suggest that your task can be achieved with :

iconv --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code=EBCDIC --output=FILE SourceFile

. If you have iconv, just check the man pages.

4

Hi,

iconv is there on our server. But it always gives the same message "From" charset to "To" charset conversion is not supported.
iconv -f 1256 -t 420 file > outFile

Did I miss anything here?

Thanks,
Sridhar

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I suspect your syntax is wrong. First list the supported charsets using iconv --list to check if the required charset is supported on your system.

Assuming you want to convert from UTF8 to US EBCDIC, on a Fedora 10 system the syntax is

iconv -f UTF8 -t EBCDIC-US file > outfile