sed command works from cmd line to standard output but will not write to file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all .... vexing problem here ...

I am using sed to replace some special characters in a .txt file:

sed -e 's/_<ED>_/_355_/g;s/_<F3>_/_363_/g;s/_<E1>_/_341_/g' filename.txt

This command replaces <ED> with � , <F3> with � and <E1> with �.

When I run the command to standard output, it works as expected.

When I attempt to write to another file, the special characters are eliminated again.

so
sed -e 's/_<ED>_/_355_/g;s/_<F3>_/_363_/g;s/_<E1>_/_341_/g' filename.txt

works, but

sed -e 's/_<ED>_/_355_/g;s/_<F3>_/_363_/g;s/_<E1>_/_341_/g' filename.txt>filename2.txt

does not.

any help is appreciated.

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more info:

when I run this command on a 5.9 Solaris server it works as expected.

The problem exists only on 5.10 Solaris instances.