Why does sed fail with International characters and how to fix?

Question

GNU sed version 4.1.5 seems to fail with International chars. Here is my input file:

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Answer 1

sed is not very well setup for non-ASCII text. However you can use (almost) the same code in perl and get the result you want:

perl -pe 's/.*\| //' x