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Replace accent character "é" with "e"

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Replace accent character "é" with "e"

Replace accent character "é" with "e"

(OP)
hi,

I need to replace accent character "é" with "e" (I know this is not correct replacement) in my file after converting it from utf-8 to ascii.
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Command used for conversion: $iconv -c -f utf-8 -t ascii < file1.txt > file2.txt

Cheers,
BauV

RE: Replace accent character "é" with "e"

Hi

Try this, worked for my test text :

CODE

iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit < file1.txt > file2.txt

Feherke.
feherke.github.io

RE: Replace accent character "é" with "e"

(OP)
Thanks Fuherke, for the help.
I did try this already, shown with Error: tomap cannot be specified with fromcode.
Any further help is appreciated.

Cheers,
BauV

RE: Replace accent character "é" with "e"

Try unaccent:

CODE

$ echo 'xáéíy' | unaccent utf-8
xaeiy

RE: Replace accent character "é" with "e"

Try sed:

CODE

$ echo 'xáéíy' | sed 'y/áéí/aei/'
xaeiy

RE: Replace accent character "é" with "e"

(OP)
Thanks mikrom.
Both are showing errors, as below -
1) $ echo 'xáéíy' | unaccent utf-8 ---error: "ksh: unaccent: not found"
2) $ echo 'xáéíy' | sed 'y/áéí/aei/' ---error: sed: command garbled: y/áéí/aei/

I tried below command:
echo 'xá sdfdsédsfjdks íy' | sed -e 's/é/e/g' ---worked fine, result: "xá sdfdsedsfjdks íy"
sed -e 's/é/e/g' file1.txt > file1.res --- no luck
or
sed -e 's/é/e/g' < file1.txt > file1.res --- no luck

Any further suggestion plzz.

Cheers,
BauV

RE: Replace accent character "é" with "e"

(OP)
hi,

$file file1.txt --- says, English text or ASCII text
Does this matter?

Cheers,
BauV

RE: Replace accent character "é" with "e"

Quote:


ksh: unaccent: not found
Before I used it I had to install it on my Linux machine

CODE

sudo apt install unaccent

RE: Replace accent character "é" with "e"

(OP)
Unfortunately I do not have required access to install unaccent.
Cheers,
BauV.

RE: Replace accent character "é" with "e"

Quote (BauV)


$file file1.txt --- says, English text or ASCII text
Does this matter?
Yes, it does matter. How it could be english ASCII containing accents áéí? Such characters are not in english ASCII encoding.
My file is in utf-8 and everything works.

CODE

$ echo 'xáéíy' > file1.txt
$ file -i file1.txt 
file1.txt: text/plain; charset=utf-8
$ sed 'y/áéí/aei/' file1.txt 
xaeiy
$ sed 'y/áéí/aei/' file1.txt > file2.txt
$ cat file1.txt file2.txt 
xáéíy
xaeiy
$ file -i file*.txt 
file1.txt: text/plain; charset=utf-8
file2.txt: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

.. and what is your operating system ?

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