When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Unicode 9 is now official, making standard a whole new set of characters and — yes — new emoji.

Using the in-built utilities Charmap and Eudcedit, Windows allows you to insert Unicode and special characters in Notepad and your other documents. But the process is not easy and takes a bit of time.

Hi all,<BR><BR>I have a unicode text file (say created using Notepad), and I want to replace some strings in it from a cmd script. For non-unicode I could use sed, but I haven't found any versions of ...