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pdm_uconv--Convert Local Charset to UTF-8

The pdm_uconv utility assists you in converting data from previous releases of CA Service Desk Manager or integrations with other CA products. The most common usage of this utility is to convert from a local charset to UTF-8 and from UTF-8 to a local charset.

Syntax

This command has the following format:

pdm_uconv -h [-V] [-s] [-v] [-l | --list-code 
| --default-code | -L] [--cannon] [-x] [--to-callback | -c] [--from-callback | -i] [--fallback | --no-fallback] [-b] [-f] [--t] [--add-signature] [--remove-signature] [-o] [file ...]

• -h

  Opens the help menu.

• -V

  Prints the program version.

• -s

  Uses silent operation and suppresses messages.

• -v

  Displays the progress information of the utility.

• -l

  Lists all available encoding. The following are valid:

  • --list-code

    Lists only the given encoding.

  • --default-code

    Lists only the default encoding.

  • -L

    Lists all available transliterators.

• --cannon

  Prints the list in cnvrtrs.txt(5) format.

• -x

  Runs the progress through transliteration.

• --to-callback callback

  Uses callback on destination encoding.

• -c

  Omits invalid characters from the output.

• --from-callback callback

  Uses callback on original encoding.

• -i

  Ignores invalid sequences in the input.

• --callback callback

  Uses callback on both encoding.s.

• -b

  Specifies the block size.

  Default: 4096

• --fallback

  Uses fallback mapping.

• --no-fallback

  Does not use fallback mapping.

• -f

  Sets theoriginal encoding.

• -t

  Sets the destination encoding.

• --add-signature

  Adds U+FEFF Unicode signature character (BOM).

• --remove-signature

  Removes U+FEFF Unicode signature character (BOM)

• -o

  Writes output to file.

Examples:

• From local charset to UTF-8

  pdm_uconv -t utf-8 inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt

• From specific charset (iso-2022-jp) to UTF-8

  pdm_uconv -f iso-2022-jp -t utf-8 inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt

• From UTF-8 to local charset

  pdm_uconv -f utf-8 inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt

• From UTF-8 to specific charset

  pdm_uconv -f utf-8 -t iso-2022-jp inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt

The pdm_uconv utility has the following are valid callbacks:

• substitute
• skip
• stop
• escape
• escape-icu
• escape-java
• escape-c
• escape-xml
• escape-xml-hex
• escape-xml-dec
• escape-unicode