Replace accent character "é" with "e"

• Sep 3, 2021

• #2

feherke

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Aug 5, 2002

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Hi

Try this, worked for my test text :

Code:

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

Feherke.
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• Sep 5, 2021

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• #3

BauV

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Aug 25, 2021

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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

 

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• Sep 5, 2021

• #4

mikrom

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Mar 27, 2002

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Try unaccent:

Code:

$ echo 'xáéíy' | unaccent utf-8
xaeiy

 

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• Sep 5, 2021

• #5

mikrom

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Try sed:

Code:

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

 

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• Sep 6, 2021

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BauV

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Aug 25, 2021

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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

 

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• Sep 6, 2021

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• #7

BauV

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Aug 25, 2021

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hi,

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

Cheers,
BauV

 

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• Sep 6, 2021

• #8

mikrom

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ksh: unaccent: not found

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Before I used it I had to install it on my Linux machine

Code:

sudo apt install unaccent

 

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• Sep 6, 2021

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BauV

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Aug 25, 2021

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

 

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• Sep 6, 2021

• #10

mikrom

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BauV said:

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

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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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