{"id":452,"date":"2011-02-24T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:35:57","slug":"utf-8-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/utf-8-converter\/","title":{"rendered":"UTF-8 Converter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe other day at work, I needed to batch convert about one or two hundred files formatted in MACROMAN format to UTF-8. Well, it turns out there is a command line utility to do just this called iconv. I was very pleased when I found that because it was going to save me a lot of time. Then I ran it and got confused. It turns out that iconv does convert text format, but it doesn’t write it back out to a file, it just spits the results back into the terminal window. Mildly frustrated, I decided to take matters into my own hands and write a script that would take the output and put it back into a file with the same name. These are the results:<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash
\n
\nfor f in $1\/* ; do
\no=`basename $f`
\nif file $f | grep Unicode ; then
\ncp $f $2
\nelse
\niconv -f MACROMAN -t UTF-8 $f >$2\/$o
\nfi
\ndone<\/code><\/p>\n

I went further and added options,\u00a0 a debug mode, verbose mode, and the like, and even a man page! The syntax is:<\/p>\n

# roman_to_utf8 [options] <input> <output><\/code><\/p>\n

The input and output can be either directories or individual files.<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash
\n
\nusage() {
\necho Usage: $0 \"[-v | --verbose] [-d | --debug] [-e | --encoding <encoding>] <input> <output>\"
\nexit 1
\n}
\n
\nVERBOSE=false
\nENCODING=MACROMAN
\nDEBUG=false
\n
\nwhile true; do
\ncase $1 in
\n-v | --verbose) VERBOSE=true;;
\n-d | --debug) DEBUG=true;;
\n-*) echo \"Bad option $1\"; usage;;
\n*) break;;
\nesac
\nshift
\ndone
\n
\nSOURCE=\"$1\"
\nDESTINATION=\"$2\"
\n
\nif [ $DEBUG = true ]; then
\necho VERBOSE = $VERBOSE
\necho SOURCE = $SOURCE
\necho DESTINATION = \"$DESTINATION\"
\necho ENCODING = \"$ENCODING\"
\nexit
\nfi
\n
\nif [ \"x$SOURCE\" = x -o \"x$DESTINATION\" = x ]; then
\nusage;
\nfi
\n
\nconvert() {
\nINPUT=\"$1\"
\nOUTPUT=\"$2\"
\nFILENAME=`basename \"$INPUT\"`
\nif file \"$INPUT\" | grep Unicode ; then
\ncp \"$INPUT\" \"$OUTPUT\"
\n$VERBOSE && echo \"Successfully copied $FILENAME\"
\nelse
\niconv -s -f $ENCODING -t UTF-8 \"$INPUT\" >\"$OUTPUT\/$FILENAME\"
\n$VERBOSE && echo \"Successfully converted $FILENAME\"
\nfi
\n}
\n
\nif [ -d \"$SOURCE\" ]; then
\nfor INPUT in \"$SOURCE\"\/* ; do
\nconvert \"$INPUT\" \"$DESTINATION\"
\ndone
\nelse
\nconvert \"$SOURCE\" \"$DESTINATION\"
\nfi
\n
\nexit<\/code><\/p>\n

Please excuse the poor tabbing due to wordpress. In any case, it worked and saved me a ton of time. All you need to do is copy this script into a file and make it executable. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day at work, I needed to batch convert about one or two hundred files formatted in MACROMAN format to UTF-8. Well, it turns out there is a command line utility to do just this called iconv. I was very pleased when I found that because it was going to save me a lot … Continue reading UTF-8 Converter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}