Handling of NUL inconsistent in different locales

[Gary Coady]

See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-11/msg00110.html

Install Japanese language support to see the problem:
$ LANG=ja_JP.utf8 gawk 'BEGIN {print length("abc\0def")}'
3
$ LANG=ja_JP.eucJP gawk 'BEGIN {print length("abc\0def")}'
7

[Gary Coady (garycoady)]

Patch was discussed upstream, with reference to POSIX specifications, etc.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gawk - 1:3.1.6.dfsg-0ubuntu1

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gawk (1:3.1.6.dfsg-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
    - Remove patches applied upstream: 01_po-Makefile.in.in.dpatch,
      19_io.c-invalid-free.dpatch, 20_eval.c-utf-8-strcat.dpatch,
      25_free_wstr-and-multiple-frees.dpatch.
    - Update 18_de.po-typos.dpatch.
    - Fixes broken match operator on amd64. LP: #127850.
    - Fix several bugs with multibyte support. LP: #44687, #44695, #58371.
  * debian/rules: Don't install README_d/README.FIRST, removed upstream.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:51:47 +0100