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-- Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger
(Members of the all-star band, The Dudes from Bell Labs)
Greetings all. Below is the first public release of the multibyte awareness
patch for gawk. With this patch, index(), length(), substr() and match()
all work in terms of "characters" instead of "bytes".
Preliminary testing by a few intrepid explorers seems to indicate that things
work as they're supposed to. This patch passes `make test' in the en_US.utf8
locale, with the expected failure of the gsubtst5 test.
Please try this out, particularly in multibyte locales.
As noted in the version string, this is an UNOFFICIAL patch; you should not
drop it into a production version without testing. Please send me any problem
reports. I will also be more than happy to get success reports in different
locales.