Clearly, tape brought from up-North.
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In Deep Space
Today’s image comes courtesy my iPhone. Just kidding. This is yesterday’s APotD, courtesy Rolf Geissinger. Be sure to check out the full description here.
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How to convert a bunch of files from Simplified Chinese into Unicode
Converted 154 files from Chinese to Unicode today. Here’s how I ended up doing it on my OS X box:
find . -name "*.cfg" -exec sh -c 'iconv -f GBK -t UTF-8 "$1" > "../new/zh_CH/$1"' -- {} \;lhunath‘s answer to this question on Stack Overflow was instrumental in getting the syntax right.
The other half was figuring out what type of Chinese text encoding was being used in the source files. EditPad Pro for Windows was extremely helpful in this regard, as it allowed me to quickly preview what many different text encodings looked like. In the command line above, “GBK” is the source text encoding (one of several text encoding standards for Simplified Chinese).
It costs money, but BinaryMark’s Batch Encoding Converter for Windows would have also done the conversion work once I’d figured out the source text encoding was GBK. As it stands I used the “iconv” tool which is built into OS X.
