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Re: UTF-8 to <U###> syntax?

From: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>
To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
Cc: "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon at csail dot mit dot edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 04:13:41 +0200
Subject: Re: UTF-8 to <U###> syntax?
References: <20070323202148.GJ20703@csail.mit.edu>

Jonathan D. Proulx asked on 2007-03-23:
> anyone have a utility for converting from utf-8 text to the <U####>
> syntax used in the locale files?

The 'iconv' program from GNU libiconv [1] can do it:

  $ echo ÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ |
    iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII --unicode-subst='<U%04X>'
  <U0420><U0443><U0441><U0441><U043A><U0438><U0439>

Bruno

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/

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