Re: [bug-gawk] binary mode for strings?

[Manuel Collado]

El 02/05/2018 a las 0:17, address@hidden escribió:
> You may wish to consider using iconv along with gawk, and letting iconv
> convert the data from CP1250 to UTF-8 or something else more suitable
> for gawk on Linux.

The attached "filenc.awk" script can automate the conversion process. 
Just add an '::encoding' suffix to the foreign input file arguments, and 
they will be converted to the current locale before processing.

> Petr Slansky <address@hidden> wrote:
> > $ awk -f demo1.awk test.txt
> > Price is 35.12� (EUR).
> > Price is 35.12 (EUR).

Change this to:

$ gawk -i filenc -f demo1.awk test.txt::cp1252

It works on my Windows10/Cygwin64 platform. And should work on Linux 
platforms with iconv installed.

Hope this help. Regards.
--
Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado

filenc.awk
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