Re: Unicode to ASCII

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 2:59 PM Silas <silas_nblists%nocafe.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 08:08:25PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> >I'll be honest and say I did not look but on another system I am using
> >"iconv" for this type of thing routinely.  I will cross my fingers and
> >hope it is available in pkgsrc.
> >
> >    iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT <filein >fileout
>
> It seems it is not possible on NetBSD 9.0 iconv :-(
>
> $ echo 'pão' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
> iconv: iconv_open(ASCII//TRANSLIT, UTF-8): Invalid argument
>
> Is there something that could be installed from pkgsrc (or another
> iconv implementation) to make it work?

My guess - and it is only a guess - you have to use a code page, and
not just ASCII.

The man page for iconv is at
https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv-1.16/iconv.1.html.
A list of the encodings is at
https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv-1.16/iconv_open.3.html.

Jeff