Robin Moffatt • 1/21/2019

Replacing UTF8 non-breaking-space with bash/sed on the Mac

The article details a technical solution for replacing UTF-8 non-breaking-space characters (hex C2 A0) with regular spaces in Markdown files using bash and sed on macOS. It explains the problem where these characters break heading rendering, shows diagnostic commands like hexdump and od, contrasts sed behavior between Linux and macOS, and provides the correct syntax for batch file conversion on a Mac.

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#bash #Shell Scripting #Utf 8