Can GNU sed (for Windows) handle Unicode? If so, is it a code-page/locale issue, or a switch?
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I've been using GNU SED on and off for a couple of years now. It spins me out a bit sometimes, but it does a good job... for single-byte char sets! I now and then notice references to GNU SED being Unicode-aware, but the closest I've seen of this is its "binary" mode.. and binary is not Unicode. Ca…
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I don't know a ton about sed, but after some hard Googling it seems to have support for a variety of code pages through the LANG environment variable. I believe UTF-8 is in fact the default in the absence of LANG. I don't know how the Windows port i…
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