Re: Question on using gsub() on UTF-8 strings

[Manuel Collado]

El 23/6/24 a las 8:39, pjfarley3@earthlink.net escribió:
> > ...
> > So the only recommendation I have is to recode the text in some
> single-byte
> > codepage supported by Windows, preferably your system codepage, and then
> > Gawk should work.
> ...
> *Sigh* I was afraid that might be the answer...
>
> I do have a gawk process to detect and convert a lot of the UTF-8 characters
> to semi-reasonable single-byte substitutes, but it is a little cumbersome
> and really needs a generalization rewrite.

There are Windows ports of the 'iconv' (libiconv) utility.

HTH
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