If/will sed support encoding setting?

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> Hi,
>
> I wonder that if/will sed support encoding setting?
> Chinese character mostly use an so called GBK encoding which is double  
> byte. The problem is that a ASCII letter which is single byte encoding  
> can be inserted into the double byte Chinese character which means I  
> cannot simple match a Chinese character by regexp '..'. Because '..'  
> might match either a Chinese character or combination of a Ascii letter  
> and half a Chinese character.
>
> It seems that NLS just translate the message from English to Chinese.  
> Does not help to this problem.
>
> I usually use gVim that I can match character correctly with the  
> encoding set to cp936. Though in gVim I can match both a double-byte  
> Character and a single-byte ASCII letter by '.', I still want to know if  
> if could be achieved with sed. Or does sed plan to put the encoding  
> support into future versions that we can pass the encoding to sed either  
> by environment variable or by commandline option?
>

Environment: WinXp + Cygwin

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Regards,
hq00e



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