language problem redux

[Jerry Davis]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:03:55 -0700
Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > I generated a file on our RH 4 linux box using a perl program I wrote from
> > an
> > oracle database that is set to utf8.
> >
> > I run that very same perl program on my windows box [ using cygwin ]
> > (internally
> > set to WINDOWS-1252). This way, I have a benchmark file to look at. This
> > file is
> > what it is supposed to look like. The spanish characters and other
> > characters
> > come out just fine when typed out at the terminal.
> >
> > I tried, on RH4, setting my LANG to en_US.utf8 and generating it, and
> > copied it
> > over to windows via sftp (which always copies over in binary mode, I found
> > out), and it does not compare.
> >
> > I tried, on RH4, setting my LANG to en_US.CP1252 and regenerated it, copied
> > it
> > over to windows using sftp, and compared -- no soap.
> 
> 
> Jerry, it would probably be useful to your helpers if you gave some
> indocation of in what way it does not compare.  Though I do not suggest this
> is your answer, an example might be that the version from linux had line
> feeds while the version from cygwin on Windoze had both carriage returns and
> line feeds.  So do a diff and capture the output in some form we can see.
> 
> >
> >
> > so ... does anyone have any ideas that might work? it rankles me that I
> > have to
> > run the program on windows to make it do the right thing.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Happy Trails!
> > Jerry (K7AZJ)
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> 
>

I'm off today, but my perl program creates a file with \r\n as the line endings.
When I say they don't compare, I am not talking about line endings. I am fully
aware of those. I am talking about the actual spanish characters.

I will send the fragments when I get back to the office

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Jerry (K7AZJ)
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