Is there an alternative to sed that supports unicode?

For example: sed 's/\u0091//g' file1 Right now, I have to do hexdump to get hex number and put into sed as follows: $ echo -ne '\u9991' | hexdump -C 00000000 e9 a6 91 |...| 00000003 And then: $ sed 's/\xe9\xa6\x91//g' file1