language differences between linux and windows

[Bryan O'Neal]

There are a number of differences, every thing from end of line charters
(Linux uses /l or /n while windows uses /n/l) to characters windows likes to
sub statue because it thinks you mean U+02F7 when you actually mean ~. And
some times it inserts its own weird things like the smiley face (which is
usually read a J) or U+2026 instead of ...
But if your getting something like U+1EAC instead of U+0041 it could be an
issue with U8 vs. U16?
Personally I like to use a good texted editor on windows, like TextPad to
clean all that up for me before using it on a different platform.



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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jerry
Davis
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:07 PM
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Subject: language differences between linux and windows

I am using Rational ClearQuest, and am using the CQ Import process to import
from a csv file which I produced on a linux box.

The linux backend database is Oracle, and is a utf8 database.
The windows box I am using to do the import (there is no import binary on
linux), thinks it is WINDOWS-1252

My csv file has some spanish characters. I can see them in the csv file i
produce. However, when I copy from linux (any means like scp, or a samba
mount point), the file characters actually change.

I have tried installing iconv (using cygwin), and tried:
$ iconv -s -c -f UTF-8 -t WINDOWS-1252 file > newfile

It does not look the same as when it was on linux.

Does anyone know what else I could do, to copy a utf8 file to a windows-1252
file?



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