language differences between linux and windows

[Stephen]

A thought might be to kit upload to google docs then fl if it comes up again

On 2/27/09, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:07:05 -0700
> Jerry Davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>
> ok. I tried a lot of stuff. but the one thing that actually worked, was to
> run
> the cqperl script on the windows box itself.
>
> it was utf8 on the linux box, I could see the text.
> when i copied the file, via a samba share, or scp in cygwin, the characters
> actually changed.
>
> we don't use ftp on our servers at all, because of security reasons, so I
> tried
> sftp. know what, I couldn't find a mode switch on sftp (binary or ascii), so
> I
> couldn't get sftp to deal with it correctly.
>
> so I copied over my cqperl script to windows, and it worked there. The
> characters came out right.
>
> god, I really hate to have to deal with windows in any way at all.
>
> oh btw, if I tried to convert the file on cygwin using iconv. But by the
> time I
> got the file over to windows the damage was already done.
>
>
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