diff -r b064f1b3676e -r f911910fd68f src/AwkHandler.h
--- a/src/AwkHandler.h	Mon May 06 16:06:57 2019 +0200
+++ b/src/AwkHandler.h	Mon May 06 17:46:49 2019 +0200
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@
 				// Writer child process
 				closeOrThrow(awkInputWriterFD);
 
+				locale::global(locale("")); // needed for processing unicode texts, otherwise getline() stopped working on first line with non-ascii characters; TODO: move somewhere else?
+				
 				__gnu_cxx::stdio_filebuf<wchar_t> awkOutputReaderBuffer(awkOutputReaderFD, std::ios::in);
 				std::wistream awkOutputReader(&awkOutputReaderBuffer);