Re: [9fans] simplicity

[Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>]

In article <5d375e920709180838t4070c23al11bc0eb5cc7280c9@mail.gmail.com> Uriel 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.

It likely is fixed by now.  If not, I'd like to have a sample program and
data and locale name to test under. And the truth is, even if it doesn't work,
I can blame the library routines and locale and not my code. :-)

Testing should be performed using current sources, available via anonymous
CVS from savannah.gnu.org, check out the gawk-stable module.  From CVS use:

	./bootstrap.sh
	./configure && make && make check

to build on a Unix or Linux system.

I hope to make a formal release in the next few weeks.

As to the original thread, yeah, configure (= autoconf + automake +
libtool + gnulib) has gotten way too hairy to handle. I don't use gnulib
on principle: I have the gut feeling that the configuration goop would
likely outweigh the source code in line count.

The only reason I added Automake support was to get GNU Gettext, which
on balance is a good thing.  Locales, on the other hand, I think are
very painful.  I hope that people who use them find them valuable (I'm
a parochial English speaking American myself, so ASCII is usually
enough for me.)

My two cents,

Arnold
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