Hello, I think there is a bug in read() builtin.
$ cat test
echo 'ρ'|while read i; do echo $i; done
$ dash test
$ bash test
ρ
Same with some japanese symbols.
Looks like dash strips 0x81 byte.
diff --git a/src/miscbltin.c b/src/miscbltin.c
index 5ab1648..f8c5655 100644
--- a/src/miscbltin.c
+++ b/src/miscbltin.c
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ readcmd_handle_line(char *line, char **ap, size_t len)
* will not modify the length of the string */
offset = sl->text - s;
remainder = backup + offset;
- rmescapes(remainder);
setvar(*ap, remainder, 0);
return;