Bash: Fixing an ASCII text file changed with Unicode character sequences
File encoding issues are difficult to diagnose and troubleshoot. Most files in the operations world are expected to be text-only ASCII 7 bit, so if a file goes into UTF-8 encoding and has embedded Unicode character inserted, it can often throw off the tool chain or systems using the file. Here are two example files, … Bash: Fixing an ASCII text file changed with Unicode character sequences