From: "Gorka Guardiola" <paurea@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] awk, not utf aware...
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:54:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <599f06db0802260654x555970e8q8a055c2889a0c121@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080226131613.GA811@shodan.homeunix.net>
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net> wrote:
> Awk is one of the few programs in the ditribution that is maintained
> externally (by Brian Kernighan) and is pulled in via ape and pcc (it might
> actually be the only one - I didn't bother to check.) A quick glimpse at
> lex.c suggests that awk scans input one char at a time. In hindsight I'm a
> bit surprised that I haven't got bitten by this, but I probably didn't split
> within multibyte sequences. It's probably not too hard to change awk to read
> runes for the price of creating ``the other one true awk.''
>
I don't know if it is as easy. I leave it in my todo list for the future :-).
Anyway, the BUGS section should say it does not know about UTF.
I´ll send a patch.
--
- curiosity sKilled the cat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-26 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-26 12:18 Gorka Guardiola
2008-02-26 13:16 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-26 14:54 ` Gorka Guardiola [this message]
2008-02-26 20:24 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-26 21:08 ` geoff
2008-02-26 21:21 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-26 21:24 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-26 21:32 ` Steven Vormwald
2008-02-26 21:40 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-26 21:42 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-26 23:59 ` Steven Vormwald
2008-02-27 2:38 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-02-29 17:00 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-02-26 21:34 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-27 7:36 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-02-27 15:54 ` Sape Mullender
2008-02-27 20:01 ` Uriel
2008-02-28 19:06 ` [9fans] localization, unicode, regexps (was: awk, not utf aware...) Tristan Plumb
2008-02-28 15:10 ` [9fans] awk, not utf aware erik quanstrom
2008-03-03 23:48 ` Jack Johnson
2008-03-04 0:13 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-27 9:57 erik quanstrom
2008-02-28 18:54 Aharon Robbins
2008-02-28 21:48 ` Uriel
2008-02-28 22:08 ` erik quanstrom
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