HAHAHAHAHAHA

Uh, maybe. If your version of gawk is recent enough and has the right support built in, and you can set your LC_ALL and/or LANG environment variables to "en_US.UTF-8" (or something similar to that; your politics might require you to use "en_CA.UTF-8"), you might get it to work.

Or you could just use perl (or Tcl or Ruby or Python or Forth or Haskell or whatever your pet language might be) instead.