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Old 10-31-2014
Search and Replace Extended Ascii Characters

We are getting extended Ascii characters in the input file and my requirement is to search and replace them with a space. I am using the following command

Code:
LANG=C sed -e 's/[\x80-\xFF]/ /g'

It is doing a good job, but in some cases it is replacing the extended characters with two spaces. So my input file is fixed length file and because of this the length is increasing by 1 character or 2 characters depending on number of extended characters in the single line.

What is the best way to replace extended characters with only one space ?
(preferably sed command)
 

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