[OSM-dev] dev server: script killed?

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Thursday 17 August 2006 17:49, Jonas Svensson wrote:
> On 17 Aug 2006 at 16:15, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Ge wrote:
> > I'm currently trying to read it with check_osm.pl and the only way I
> > don't run out of memory is by limiting it to a small area. But still then
> > it stops somewhere because of wrong UTF-8 characters. Problem is: it
> > stops after sucking all memory and CPU for 10 minutes. So it takes some
> > time to find out all the UTF-8 errors.
>
> Why don't you preprocess it to remove the faulty characters?

that'S what I try. But it's a little bit of work; since the only think to edit 
I've found is sed. ANd I'm still looking for something like 
sed -e 's/[\x80-\xFF]/_/g'
but in sed inside [] not \ works. Any hints or ideas?
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Joerg