[Athens-pm] Unicode to Greek

[Alexander Karelas]

Just found a solution... use the gnu utility 'recode' as a filter: "cat 
<filename> | recode UTF-16..ISO-8859-7"

Not very perlish, but it's okay...

Alex




Alexander Karelas wrote:

>I'm trying to change the unicode file here [1] to the standard
>iso-8859-7 character set, in order to process it with Perl afterwards.
>
>[1] http://www.ypan.gr/flash_fuel/ath/ath.dat
>
>After having installed the module Unicode::MapUTF8, which also installs
>the shell utility 'umap', I did:
>$ umap utf16:greek <ath.dat >output
>
>For some reason the translation stops after a couple of hundred of
>characters, and the output file is a lot smaller than the original.
>
>Does anyone have a clue as to what's wrong there?
>
>Thx,
>- Alexander
>
>P.S. I can't find a perl function to do the mapping from utf16... while
>there is a from_utf8 in Unicode::MapUTF8, from_utf16 seems like it's
>missing.
>
>Any help appreciated
>
>Thx
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