Getting “sed error – illegal byte sequence” (in bash) [duplicate]

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Try setting the LANG environment variable (LANG=C sed ...) or use one of the binary sed tools mentioned here: binary sed replacement

Why the error?

Without LANG=C sed assumes that files are encoded in whatever encoding is specified in LANG and the file (being binary) may contain bytes which are not valid characters in LANG‘s encoding (thus you could get ‘illegal byte sequence’).

Why does LANG=C work?

C just happens to treat all ASCII characters as themselves and non-ASCII characters as literals.

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