Whilst great Brian's added this, didn't Plan9's version of AWK support UTF-8? I haven't used it, but my understanding was all the unix tools were upgraded to w

Whilst great Brian's added this, didn't Plan9's version of AWK support UTF-8? I haven't used it, but my understanding was all the unix tools were upgraded to work with unicode - don't quite see why it's taken so long if the work was done already years ago