mawk counts characters incorrectly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mawk (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
$ echo ä | mawk '{print length($0)}'
outputs 2. I expect 1.
$ echo äo | mawk '{print match($0,"o")}'
outputs 3. I expect 2.
Probably this is due to the internal representation of UTF-8 characters; mawk counts bytes instead of characters. gawk works similarly, if -b option is used.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: mawk 1.3.3-17ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Jun 7 15:52:26 2015
Dependencies:
gcc-4.9-base 4.9.1-0ubuntu1
libc6 2.19-0ubuntu6.6
libgcc1 1:4.9.1-0ubuntu1
multiarch-support 2.19-0ubuntu6.6
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-21 (259 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.1)
SourcePackage: mawk
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I guess it is design. I think some operations are faster, if you count bytes instead of characters. There could be an option to allow mawk count characters, though.