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author | Indrajith K L | 2022-12-03 17:00:20 +0530 |
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committer | Indrajith K L | 2022-12-03 17:00:20 +0530 |
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diff --git a/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/README.multibyte b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/README.multibyte new file mode 100644 index 0000000..135ba86 --- /dev/null +++ b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/README.multibyte @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Fri Jun 3 12:20:17 IDT 2005 +============================ + +As noted in the NEWS file, as of 3.1.5, gawk uses character values instead +of byte values for `index', `length', `substr' and `match'. This works +in multibyte and unicode locales. + +Wed Jun 18 16:47:31 IDT 2003 +============================ + +Multibyte locales can cause occasional weirdness, in particular with +ranges inside brackets: /[....]/. Something that works great for ASCII +will choke for, e.g., en_US.UTF-8. One such program is test/gsubtst5.awk. + +By default, the test suite runs with LC_ALL=C and LANG=C. You +can change this by doing (from a Bourne-style shell): + + $ GAWKLOCALE=some_locale make check + +Then the test suite will set LC_ALL and LANG to the given locale. + +As of this writing, this works for en_US.UTF-8, and all tests +pass except gsubtst5. + +For the normal case of RS = "\n", the locale is largely irrelevant. +For other single byte record separators, using LC_ALL=C will give you +much better performance when reading records. Otherwise, gawk has to +make several function calls, *per input character* to find the record +terminator. You have been warned. |