From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] simplicity
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:33:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <140e7ec30710092233t313a8e66qc99b57674c9f1e30@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920709180838t4070c23al11bc0eb5cc7280c9@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/18/07, Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't complain, at least it is not producing random behaviour, I have
> seen versions of gnu awk that when feed plain ASCII input, if the
> locale was UTF-8, rules would match random lines of input, the fix?
> set the locale to 'C' at the top of all your scripts (and don't even
> think of dealing with files which actually contain non-ASCII UTF-8).
>
> This was some years ago, it might be fixed by now, but it demonstrates
> how the locale insanity makes life so much more fun.-
Heh, funny that this thread got revived the very day that my
colleague's backup script choked because he was running in a utf8
locale and hit a filename encoded in iso8859-1. Apparently GNU sed's .
stops matching when it hits an invalid bytestream (which is not
entirely unreasonable I guess).
-sqweek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-16 18:55 Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-16 20:42 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-09-16 21:24 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-17 15:22 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-16 20:43 ` roger peppe
2007-09-16 20:53 ` Steve Simon
2007-09-17 15:22 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-17 20:00 ` Scott Schwartz
2007-09-17 3:23 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-17 15:22 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-17 15:55 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-18 8:38 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-18 10:45 ` dave.l
2007-09-18 14:44 ` Iruata Souza
2007-09-18 15:41 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-18 21:34 ` Iruata Souza
2007-10-10 3:30 ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-10 4:02 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-10 6:17 ` Jack Johnson
2007-10-10 12:22 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-18 15:27 ` Rob Pike
2007-09-18 15:38 ` Uriel
2007-09-19 8:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-19 11:51 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-19 15:02 ` Russ Cox
2007-09-19 14:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-09-19 14:21 ` Iruata Souza
2007-09-19 15:32 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-09 20:08 ` Aharon Robbins
2007-10-09 21:08 ` Uriel
2007-10-10 5:33 ` sqweek [this message]
2007-10-10 11:49 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-17 14:52 ` ron minnich
2007-09-17 14:53 ` ron minnich
2007-10-10 7:36 John Stalker
2007-10-10 8:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-10 11:47 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-10 14:05 ` John Stalker
2007-10-10 14:29 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-10 15:26 ` John Stalker
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