[plug] Mass substitute mixed utf files

[Robert Parker]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Carl Gherardi <carl.gherardi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've discovered over that my two favourite tools dont deal with utf16
> particularly well
>
> grep something utf16file fails as does cat utf16file | sed
> 's/something/replace/g'

Maybe change utf16 to utf8, do the operation and then convert back.
This link may help: http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#utf16-3

Bob Parker
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