Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Performance issues using GAWK 3.1.6 ->from Win 2008 to Win 2016

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 21:27:22 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: Flavio.Paludetto@pseg.com, Marco.Pirane@pseg.com,
>  Ricardo_D.Pereira@pseg.com, Haritha.Koleti@pseg.com, bug-gawk@gnu.org
> 
> It could indeed be the locale issue, but to test this hypothesis on
> Windows, you need to invoke Gawk with the -b command-line switch,
> because AFAIU just setting LC_ALL=C in the environment won't help:
> Gawk doesn't call
> 
>    setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
> 
> and without that environment variables won't help because setlocale
> from the MS-Windows runtime doesn't heed LC_* environment variables

Of course, this might be impossible if the offending script actually
needs to process non-ASCII characters...