VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

[Avraham Rosenberg]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:53:26PM +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote:
> I am using:
> VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27)
> 
> And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the 
> beginning of the file that I want to remove.
> 0000000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4550 6820 6d74
> 
> I m referring to 0xbb, 0xef, 0x3c, 0xbf
> 
> I would to remove them, but opening the file with vim doesn't show them - as 
> they are markers it hides.
> 
> Can anyone help me get rid of them?
> 
> Any solution (not just using VIM) would be great.
> 
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Hi
Try filtering with "tr":
Sick-file < tr '\0xbb' ' ' | tr '\0xef' ' ' | tr  '\0x3c' ' ' |  tr '\0xbf'
' ' >Healed-file
Of course, tr requires octal, not hexadecimal numbers. I was too lazy to
translate...
Cheers, Avraham

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