There is an easier way than using 'sed', use dos2unix command instead, it has been available since the early days of PC's being on the same network as UNIX servers. Either sudo apt install dos2unix or dnf install dos2unix
On Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote: > > I do not see your file, but I often get trouble with \r at the line ends, > messing up a lot of things in linux. > > If that is the case here try to strip \r from the file before converting it > to ascii. > > I do it like this: > cat file | sed 's/\r//g' > anotherFile > > Color codes from grep and such wreck about the same havoc while also being > invisible. > > Hope that helps, > Tomas > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 16:38 American Citizen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Rich: > > > > owner@localhost:~> iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII ttt.txt -o ttt.ascii > > iconv: illegal input sequence at position 465 > > owner@localhost:~> > > > > So I cannot hammer a UTF-8 file into ASCII > > > > owner@localhost:~> iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 ttt.ascii.txt -o ttt.utf-8.txt > > owner@localhost:~> file ttt.utf-8.txt > > ttt.utf-8.txt: ASCII text > > owner@localhost:~> > > > > so nothing really changed. > > > > Randall > > > > On 12/25/25 13:24, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Dec 2025, American Citizen wrote: > > > > > >> My locale command shows identical values to yours. They match exactly. > > > > > > Randall, > > > > > > Were I in the same situation I'd use iconv on each ASCII file. Read `man > > > iconv'. > > > > > > Example: To convert ASCII to UTF-8 in Linux, you can use the iconv > > > command. > > > The syntax is: iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-8 input_file.txt -o output_file.txt. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > Rich > >
