Mac awk can't process UTF-16 file

[mikezang]

I use ibtool to create strings file from stroyboard file, this strings file is in UTF-16 format, now I found awk can't process it.
when I run

awk '{print $0}' old.txt

I got nothing as attachment. How can I process UTF-18 file?

 

[jeremysteele]

Not sure if it helps, but some searches brought up this. A workaround using conversion.

I'm personally curious if awk, sed, etc work on utf-16 on linux even? Never actually tried that... hmm