Try defining it in the FS variable in BEGIN{}, seems to work for me.

$ echo -e "ASD\xC2\xA0QWE\xC2\xA0JKL" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\xC2\xA0"} {print 
$1}'
ASD


-Brad



On 08/30/2015 06:22 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> DuckDuckGo is failing me here.
>
> I need to do a
>
>     awk -F "two hex codes" '{print $1}'
>
> The two hex codes are C2 and A0
>
> What is the syntax to put them in the "-F"?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T