How to create new empty utf8 file for appending?


 
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Old 07-01-2014
Some versions of awk do not conform to the standards and the length($0) command returns the number of bytes in the line instead of the number of characters in the line. These versions of awk also provide substr() functions that count bytes instead of characters. On these versions of awk, if the last character on a line before the <newline> line terminator is a multi-byte character, the substr() in your 1st awk will transform those multi-byte characters into illegal sequences of bytes that do not form valid UTF-8 characters.

What OS (including version) are you using?
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Old 07-02-2014
Code:
file fileX
fileX: ASCII text

Adding "δόφΔάΦί" from my german keyboard makes it read
Code:
file fileX
fileX: UTF-8 Unicode text

So, as Don Cragun suspects, it might be the incorrect handling of multibyte chars. Where does the "gibberish" start?
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