Re: gawk: Wrong behavior in binary mode

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:27:51 -0200
> From: "Carlos G." <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: gawk: Wrong behavior in binary mode
>
> Hi... I think this is a bug.
> When working with gawk in binary mode, the length() and index() built-ins
> fail with character codes greater than 127(0x7f). For example:
>
> ....

First, thank you very much for the bug report.

Second, it's not a BINMODE problem; rather it is a problem with locales;
the same behavior shows up under Linux which ignores BINMODE.

I will try to get a fix for this to you and to the mailing list in the
near future.

Arnold