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Re: pgawk and Chinese
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: pgawk and Chinese |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:11:23 +0300 |
> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
> Date: 22 Jun 2001 07:16:09 +0800
>
> A> Gawk has no knowledge that it's read Chinese characters.
> A> It knows they're not in the range of ASCII characters and not
> A> regular escapes, so it falls back to the least-common-denominator
> A> representation of the source.
>
> I'd say: if the programmer put non-ASCII characters in the source of a
> program, he is probably able to deal with it in a pgawk listing of his
> source.
What Arnold was trying to tell was that _pgawk_ doesn't yet know how
to deal with strings of non-ASCII text in programs. It's an issue of
missing code, not bad assumptions in the existing code.
> P.S. $ pgawk --help should say "do man gawk, or better: info gawk" more
> explicitly than now.
GNU programs don't say that, because it is a truism that every program
is documented in its Info manual ;-)