On Mar 30 13:48, Michael Moser wrote: > I need to mangle a file containing "8-bit ASCII" characters (i.e. the > file contains also characters in the upper 8-bit range, namely a few > umlauts as well as some french accented characters). > > Strange enough, the SED version that came as part of cygwin emits the > result of the mangling using 16-bit characters (I believe those are > Unicode-16 characters, but not sure. The Hexeditor shows each second > byte as always 00, execpt for the first two bytes which read FF FE).
This is very likely not Cygwin's sed. Do you have another sed in $PATH by any chance? 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. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
