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Re: Bug in awk 3.1.6?
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Hermann Peifer |
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Re: Bug in awk 3.1.6? |
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Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:26:05 +0200 |
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On 29/10/2010 19:44, Alan Robinson wrote:
Hi
If a string contains a pound sign - \243 - in 3.1.6 the length function only
returns the value up to the pound character, not the whole string. This works
fine in 3.1.4. This is a standard suse linux 11.1 distribution.
Is there a mismatch between your locale and the encoding of the data
file? Some time ago, I had a similar experience and Arnold wrote:
> The problem stems essentially from the fact that you
> have ISO-8859 data in a UTF-8 locale. (...)
> If you can move to an ISO locale, things would likely work correctly.
Hermann