Re: Gawk and multi-byte characters

Hermann Peifer schrieb:

> What about other functions: index(), substr(), etc.? Is this do***ented
> somewhere?

It is do***ented in the gawk man page.
Arnold introduced this feature (length in characters,
not length in bytes) some time ago (see ChangeLog):

Tue Jan 18 17:23:25 2005   Arnold D. Robbins    <arnold@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

        Make gawk multibyte aware.  This means that index(), length(),
        substr() and match() all work in terms of characters, not bytes.