On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Martin Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awk is one of the few programs in the ditribution that is maintained > externally (by Brian Kernighan) and is pulled in via ape and pcc (it might > actually be the only one - I didn't bother to check.) A quick glimpse at > lex.c suggests that awk scans input one char at a time. In hindsight I'm a > bit surprised that I haven't got bitten by this, but I probably didn't split > within multibyte sequences. It's probably not too hard to change awk to read > runes for the price of creating ``the other one true awk.'' >
I don't know if it is as easy. I leave it in my todo list for the future :-). Anyway, the BUGS section should say it does not know about UTF. I´ll send a patch. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat
