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I do something similar to convert supposed plain text to 7-bit US-ASCII. I use a sed script however...

Don't shoot me, but I've used ask to create binary MIDI and WAV files...

Hmmm aWk!

When appropriate, don't pass up opportunities to ingest Gawk [1]!

edit: especially since unicode support allows for use of native Klingon fonts.

Ok, even though hasn't been ported as an awk extension under gawk, will POKE [1][2] with command line pipe do (perhaps with enough sed, too)?

awk system() makes possible to avoid being BASH'ed.