[ILUG] [TOTD] recode

[Justin Mason]

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That is *very* nifty!   Well spotted P!

- --j.

P at draigBrady.com writes:
> #show available conversions
> recode -l | less
> 
> #windows to unix with default charmap
> recode windows-1252.. file_to_change.txt
> 
> #iso-8859-1 to utf-8
> recode latin-1..utf-8 < file.txt > utf8.txt
> 
> #Base64 encode
> recode ../b64 < file.txt > file.b64
> 
> #encode required chars for HTML
> recode ..HTML file.html
> 
> #show table of characters
> recode -lf windows-1252
> 
> #show what the character is in charmap
> echo -n 0xA4 | recode l1/x1..dump
> 
> #show utf-8 encoding.
> #Remove trailing /x to view on utf-8 terminal
> echo -n 0x20AC | recode ucs-2/x2..utf-8/x
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