Re: Gawk and multi-byte characters

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:18:09 +0100, Jürgen Kahrs wrote:

> Hermann Peifer schrieb:
> 
>> Thanks for this information (I can't find anything in my Gawk 3.1.5 man
>> page, though).
> 
> I found this in the man page:
> 
>        As of version 3.1.5, gawk is multibyte aware.  This means that
>        index(), length(), substr() and match() all work in  terms  of 
>        characters,  not bytes.
> 
>> Is there a (good) reason why printf behaves differently?
> 
> I guess it's the POSIX standard that defines printf to count in terms of
> characters and not bytes.

Hi,

Hermann, you find the ChangeLog here: gawk-stable/ChangeLog 
(CVS-version: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gawk-stable/)
SUSv3 (http://www.unix.org)
defines that printf counts the field width 
and precision in bytes---not in (multibyte) characters in
"5. File Format Notation".

-- 
Steffen