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tr not replacing apostrophe

I want to convert all apostrophes in this file to X: Bob's book Bob’s book Bob′s book # (Might look the same but actually different) The first apostrophe is replaced as expected: $ cat file | tr ...
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How to specify characters using hexadecimal codes in `grep`?

I am using following command to grep character set range for hexadecimal code 0900 (instead of अ) to 097F (instead of व). How I can use hexadecimal code in place of अ and व? bzcat archive.bz2 | grep ...
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What is the connection between a gedit bug and a Unix-&-Linux Q/A href?

While answering a Unix-&-Linux question, I observed that Gedit and two other editors, Leafpad and Medit (I tested 12 editors altogether) exhibit the a certain bug. As it turns out, the bug is ...
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Filtering invalid utf8

I have a text file in an unknown or mixed encoding. I want to see the lines that contain a byte sequence that is not valid UTF-8 (by piping the text file into some program). Equivalently, I want to ...