Hello, and Happy 2014 to you all....
We have a number of files in a directory, some (when I run file -bi <filename>) in us-ascii, a few in UTF-8
I need to ensure that all the files in the directory are converted to UTF-8 before they are FTP-ed to elsewhere.
I am failing in this regard.
I am using the following, to change an ascii file to utf8:
iconv -f us-ascii -t utf8 CM2013jul161103.BMI > CM2013jul161103.BMI_utf8
When I use file -bi CM2013jul161103.BMI_utf8, I can see that it remains at ascii mode :
file -bi CM2013jul161103.RBI_utf8
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Does it still say ASCII since there are no UTF8 characters in the file to begin with???
Where am I going wrong (other than coming to work so soon after New Year's)?
Thanks.
11.2.0.3
RHEL 5.5
Aha, I just found this:
This command try to autodetect the encoding that a file is using. If no special characters are detected inside the text file, “file” will tell us that the encoding is us-ascii,