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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:34:38 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] awk, not utf aware...
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thanks for catching that.

my brain's not on today.  generally i avoid the mb functions because they
rely on locale.  of course this doesn't apply on plan 9 and so there's no reason
for utf8len.

it looks like mblen is used elsewhere; perhaps this would now be a worthwhile
patch.

- erik

> Plan 9 awk is an APE program, so it uses the unpronounceable ANSI
> mbtowc/wctomb functions to deal with UTF.  Thus it uses mblen rather
> than utflen or utf8len.
>