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From:	Mike Marchywka <marchywka AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	RE: sed converts 8-bit input text to 16-bit (Unicode-16?) characters - how to suppress that?
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:02:33 -0400
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> From: michael DOT moser AT sunrise DOT ch
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: sed converts 8-bit input text to 16-bit (Unicode-16?) charac=
ters - how to suppress that?
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:56:58 +0200
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
>> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Dave Korn
>> Sent: Montag, 30. M=E4rz 2009 14:46
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Re: sed converts 8-bit input text to 16-bit
>> (Unicode-16?) characters - how to suppress that?
>>> ...
>> Another possibility is that wordpad or notepad has tried to
>> be clever and gone and unexpectedly saved the original source
>> file in UTF16. Did you verify the original source file in a
>> hexeditor too, Michael?
>
> Yes - I did. The input is stricly one byte/octet per character and
> starts with
> "4e 61 6d 65 09 ..." (=3D "Name...")
>
> The output starts with:
> "ff fe 4e 00 61 00 6d 00 65 00 09 00 ... "
>

try " sed --version "


>
> Michael
>
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