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what characters do you consider special?<br />
and what characters do you consider closest?
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what characters do you consider special?
and what characters do you consider closest?

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Any characters that unix can not interpt.<br />
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I.e. Dec value 128 to 225<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Hex value 80 to FF<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(both of the above are the same range).<br />
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Would it be possible to have a script which would ask me to enter in a letter of my choice to be a replacement (for the special character)?
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Any characters that unix can not interpt.

I.e. Dec value 128 to 225
     Hex value 80 to FF
     (both of the above are the same range).

Would it be possible to have a script which would ask me to enter in a letter of my choice to be a replacement (for the special character)?

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Right, but I need a perl script that will work on win32 platforms. &nbsp;When I transfer the files from windows to unix the special characters are lost. &nbsp;Thus having no special characters in unix.<br />

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Right, but I need a perl script that will work on win32 platforms.  When I transfer the files from windows to unix the special characters are lost.  Thus having no special characters in unix.


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tr will work on win32 platforms<br />
How do you transfer the files from windows to unix to lose the special characters?
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tr will work on win32 platforms
How do you transfer the files from windows to unix to lose the special characters?

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I ftp (ascii). But when I open them up in Solaris 2.6 they are replaced with either nothing or some other weird character.
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I ftp (ascii). But when I open them up in Solaris 2.6 they are replaced with either nothing or some other weird character.

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I would like to remove all the special characters from a file and replace it with the closest character possible.<br />
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Is there a script that I could use to do this?<br />

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I would like to remove all the special characters from a file and replace it with the closest character possible.

Is there a script that I could use to do this?


Removing all special characters from an file

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