sed converts 8-bit input text to 16-bit (Unicode-16?) characters - how to suppress that?

Michael Moser michael.moser@sunrise.ch
Mon Mar 30 17:33:00 GMT 2009



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Montag, 30. März 2009 14:11
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: sed converts 8-bit input text to 16-bit 
> (Unicode-16?) characters - how to suppress that?
> > ... 
> This is very likely not Cygwin's sed.  Do you have another 
> sed in $PATH by any chance? 

I searched and did find another sed on my disk, but that was not in
the path. So - yes - I *am* using cycwin's sed.

> I tried with input files 
> containing german umlauts and sed does not convert to wide 
> char and it does not produce a BOM marker at the start of the file.

Maybe that conversion comes from me redirecting the output to a file
using 
'sed {options} > filename.ext'  ?!? I'll have to verify that!

There is no option to explicitly specify an output file, is there?

Michael



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