Replacing LF, NEL line endings in text file with CR+LF
- by Tomas Lycken
I have a text file with a strange character encoding that I'd like to convert to standard UTF-8. I have managed to get part of the way:
$ file myfile.txt
myfile.txt: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text, with LF, NEL line endings
$ iconv -f ascii -t utf-8 myfile.txt > myfile.txt.utf8
$ file myfile.txt.utf8
myfile.txt.utf8: UTF-8 Unicode text, with LF, NEL line endings
## edit myfile.txt.utf8 using nano, to fix failed character conversions (mostly åäö)
$ file myfile.txt.utf8
myfile.txt.utf8: UTF-8 Unicode text, with LF, NEL line endings
However, I can't figure out how to convert the line endings. How do I do to replace LF+NEL with CR+LF (or whatever is the standard)? When I'm done, I'd like to see the following:
$ file myfile.txt
myfile.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text
