ok, so here's my problem. bands like husker du use umlauts (pardon my misspelling, if any) over the u's in the band name, and bjork has the same deal. now, i'm trying to sed those vowels to the english/american versions without the umlaut. so, i hit freedb.org, grab the discinfo, take the character and put it into my script with a sed... so, today i go to copy a husker du album and the umlauts are back, check the syntax of the script and it's ok. now, i put the new umlaut in, save the script and run it, everything's happy now, but the problem is, the other umlaut characters in my sed's are now garbage in vi. they've gone from single characters to multiple characters (and i'm not talking like a <fc> code, the cursor can hit each of the characters that have replaced the umlaut vowel) sed -e s/'ü'/u/g -e s/'ö'/o/g -e s/'ü'/'u'/g i'm not sure if you'll be able to read that, but it looks right in my paste in firefox. what's a man supposed to do? -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot
