removing multibyte characters from a file using sed
Question
i need to remove all multibyte characters from a file, i dont know what they are so i need to cover the whole range.
I can find them using grep like so: grep -P "[\x80-\xFF]" 'myfile'
Trying to do a simular thing with sed, but delete them instead.
Cheers
Solution
Give this a try:
LANG=C sed 's/[\x80-\xFF]//g' filename
OTHER TIPS
you can use iconv to convert from one encoding to another
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