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Is there a way in AWK to convert "ä" (umla-A) to "a" and for the rest of the European character set that use the "unla" like "O" and "U"?

I'm trying to pass the current date into an AWK95 program in a Windows based environment and when I try to put it into the command line as a variable it is failing. Is there a way to get current date/time into a AWK95 program? Thank you............Larry

I found the thread above from joelewis1910 and response from fpmurphy regarding special foreign characters however am not not clear on how this should work to replace characters of one language with another. Need to be able to convert French "e" (containing an accent mark over the letter) to an...

Thank you all for the updates - it works to use the following in AWK95: gsub(/\+/, " ", rectyp)

I put this into my program but it gives me an error: gsub(\+, " ", rectyp) and also tried gsub("\+", " ", rectyp) All I'm trying to do is replace the plus sign with a space

I'm trying to substitute a plus sign (+) with another character but I can't seem to get it to work using GSUB. I am using the AWK95 version of AWK......thank you