ascii2utf-8

[Hiisi]

Hi.
I need to convert a bunch of ascii-files to utf-8 encoding. Now files
have the following encoding:
$ enca poster.tex
7bit ASCII characters
Whatever I do (enca, iconv) I'm unable to change it to utf-8.
Is it possible at all?
TIA

[fedora]

perl-Unicode-String

suomi

On 2010-09-28 08:48, Hiisi wrote:
> Hi.
> I need to convert a bunch of ascii-files to utf-8 encoding. Now files
> have the following encoding:
> $ enca poster.tex
> 7bit ASCII characters
> Whatever I do (enca, iconv) I'm unable to change it to utf-8.
> Is it possible at all?
> TIA

[Hiisi]

2010/9/28 fedora :
> perl-Unicode-String
>
> suomi
>
> On 2010-09-28 08:48, Hiisi wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I need to convert a bunch of ascii-files to utf-8 encoding. Now files
> > have the following encoding:
> > $ enca poster.tex
> > 7bit ASCII characters
> > Whatever I do (enca, iconv) I'm unable to change it to utf-8.
> > Is it possible at all?
> > TIA

OK, but how to use it?

$ man perl-Unicode-String
Man-sivua perl-Unicode-String ei löydy

[fedora]

man Unicode::String

On 2010-09-28 09:13, Hiisi wrote:
> 2010/9/28 fedora:
> > perl-Unicode-String
> >
> > suomi
> >
> > On 2010-09-28 08:48, Hiisi wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > I need to convert a bunch of ascii-files to utf-8 encoding. Now files
> > > have the following encoding:
> > > $ enca poster.tex
> > > 7bit ASCII characters
> > > Whatever I do (enca, iconv) I'm unable to change it to utf-8.
> > > Is it possible at all?
> > > TIA
>
> OK, but how to use it?
>
> $ man perl-Unicode-String
> Man-sivua perl-Unicode-String ei löydy

[Mogens Kjaer]

On 09/28/2010 08:48 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> Hi.
> I need to convert a bunch of ascii-files to utf-8 encoding.

ASCII-7 is a subset of UTF-8, so any ASCII-7 encoded file is also a
UTF-8 encoded file.

Why do you need to convert the files?

Mogens

[JD]

On 09/27/2010 11:48 PM, Hiisi wrote:
> Hi.
> I need to convert a bunch of ascii-files to utf-8 encoding. Now files
> have the following encoding:
> $ enca poster.tex
> 7bit ASCII characters
> Whatever I do (enca, iconv) I'm unable to change it to utf-8.
> Is it possible at all?
> TIA

OpenOffice to the rescue :)
Open each ascii file in OO and OO will pop a banner
where it will let you choose Character Set (the default of which will be 
UTF-8,
The Font - the default will be Liberation Serif
The Language - Here ther default for me is English.
Click OK
File -> Save as

and you're done!