Sed and UTF-8 encoding

Question

In SSH (Putty) I\'m using a command to replace some text in a file which is encoded in UTF-8

For example

cd ~/public_html/app/Config; sed -i \'s/ADDRE

Answer 1

You have to ensure that the issued sed command is UTF-8 encoded.

You can do this in one of two ways:

1. Write the sed command to a file, ensure the file is UTF-8, and execute it as a script:

   file yourfile should say UTF-8 Unicode text.

   You can then run bash yourfile.

2. Alternatively, change your terminal and shell settings to UTF-8

   printf à | wc -c must say 2, not 1.

   locale should list "UTF-8" or "utf8" in the LC_CTYPE line.

   You can then run the sed command straight from the terminal prompt.

Answer 2

It was on Putty configuration ==> Translation ==> Received data assumed to be in which character set ==> Choose UTF-8 Best regards