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RE: sed converts 8-bit input text to 16-bit (Unicode-16?) characters - how to suppress that?
- From: "Michael Moser" <michael dot moser at sunrise dot ch>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:20:00 +0200
- Subject: RE: sed converts 8-bit input text to 16-bit (Unicode-16?) characters - how to suppress that?
- Reply-to: <michael dot moser at sunrise dot ch>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Dave Korn
> Sent: Montag, 30. März 2009 23:02
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: sed converts 8-bit input text to 16-bit
> (Unicode-16?) characters - how to suppress that?
>
> BTW please trim the redundant headers... it's really
> considerate not to post people's email addresses in the body
> of your post because if you do so they get harvested by spammers.
Ooops - apologies! Thought I routinely did so, but must have
overlooked it this time.
> What terminal/console are you using? Unicode RXVT by any
> chance? How does it behave in other consoles?
THAT rang the bell! I am using PowerShell - as I just double-checked -
that indeed operates in Unicode-16 unless told otherwise. And it came
into play here, because I had simply redirected sed's output to a
file.
Nothing to do with sed at all! Apologies for the wasted bandwidth!
Michael
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