Re: Gawk and non-ASCII characters

[John Cowan]

Charles Kozierok scripsit:

> I am grabbing HTML code from a site that has some non-ASCII codes in
> it. Specifically, the code is "C2 A0". This shows up in ANSI as a
> capital "A" with a circumflex on top followed by a space. In ASCII it
> becomes a regular "A" followed by a space.

What it is, is a non-breaking space ( ) encoded in UTF-8.

> I need to be able to properly identify these so I can get rid of them,

If you actually want to get rid of them, use "iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII".
Alternatively, leave them alone and switch to working in UTF-8.  Notepad
can handle it, and so can many third-party editors.

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