[step:Compute the distributional Fourier transform of the principal-value kernel]
Let $K \in \mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R})$ denote the tempered distribution
\begin{align*}
K(\varphi) := \frac{1}{\pi}\,\mathrm{p.v.}\!\int_{\mathbb{R}} \frac{\varphi(x)}{x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x) = \frac{1}{\pi}\lim_{\varepsilon \to 0^+}\int_{|x| > \varepsilon} \frac{\varphi(x)}{x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x), \qquad \varphi \in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}).
\end{align*}
We claim that the distributional Fourier transform of $K$ is the bounded function
\begin{align*}
\hat{K}: \mathbb{R} &\to \mathbb{C} \\
\xi &\mapsto -i\operatorname{sgn}(\xi).
\end{align*}
Let $\varphi \in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})$. By the definition of the Fourier transform of a tempered distribution, $\hat{K}(\varphi) = K(\hat{\varphi})$, so we must compute
\begin{align*}
\hat{K}(\varphi) = \frac{1}{\pi}\lim_{\varepsilon \to 0^+}\int_{|x|>\varepsilon} \frac{\hat\varphi(x)}{x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x).
\end{align*}
By Fubini's theorem (justified because $\varphi \in L^1(\mathbb{R})$ and $\mathbb{1}_{\{|x|>\varepsilon\}}/x$ is bounded for each fixed $\varepsilon > 0$), we substitute $\hat\varphi(x) = \int_{\mathbb{R}} \varphi(\xi) e^{-i\xi x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(\xi)$ and exchange the order of integration:
\begin{align*}
\int_{|x|>\varepsilon} \frac{\hat\varphi(x)}{x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x) = \int_{\mathbb{R}} \varphi(\xi) \left(\int_{|x|>\varepsilon} \frac{e^{-i\xi x}}{x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x)\right) d\mathcal{L}^1(\xi).
\end{align*}
Since the kernel $1/x$ is odd, only the imaginary part of $e^{-i\xi x} = \cos(\xi x) - i\sin(\xi x)$ contributes:
\begin{align*}
\int_{|x|>\varepsilon} \frac{e^{-i\xi x}}{x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x) = -2i\int_\varepsilon^\infty \frac{\sin(\xi x)}{x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x).
\end{align*}
For $\xi \neq 0$, the substitution $u = \xi x$, $d\mathcal{L}^1(u) = |\xi|\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x)$ when $\xi > 0$ (with the analogous orientation reversal when $\xi < 0$), gives
\begin{align*}
\int_\varepsilon^\infty \frac{\sin(\xi x)}{x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x) = \operatorname{sgn}(\xi)\int_{\varepsilon|\xi|}^\infty \frac{\sin u}{u}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(u).
\end{align*}
The Dirichlet integral $\int_0^\infty \frac{\sin u}{u}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(u) = \pi/2$ gives
\begin{align*}
\lim_{\varepsilon \to 0^+}\int_{|x|>\varepsilon} \frac{e^{-i\xi x}}{x}\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x) = -i\pi\operatorname{sgn}(\xi), \qquad \xi \neq 0.
\end{align*}
The integrand $\xi \mapsto \int_{|x|>\varepsilon} e^{-i\xi x}/x\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x)$ is uniformly bounded in $\varepsilon, \xi$ (one checks via integration by parts that $|2\int_\varepsilon^\infty \sin(\xi x)/x\, d\mathcal{L}^1(x)| \le 2\pi$), so dominated convergence applied with dominator $2\pi |\varphi(\xi)|$ permits passing the limit through the outer integral:
\begin{align*}
\hat{K}(\varphi) = \frac{1}{\pi}\int_{\mathbb{R}} \varphi(\xi) \cdot (-i\pi\operatorname{sgn}(\xi))\, d\mathcal{L}^1(\xi) = \int_{\mathbb{R}} \varphi(\xi) \cdot (-i\operatorname{sgn}(\xi))\, d\mathcal{L}^1(\xi).
\end{align*}
Hence $\hat{K} = -i\operatorname{sgn}(\xi)$ as a regular tempered distribution.
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