[dev] Re: [9base][awk] printf and utf-8

From: Peter A. Shevtsov <petr.shevtsov_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:46:15 +0700

On 22/01/13 at 02:32pm, Peter A. Shevtsov wrote:

> It seems that it counts every cyrillic letter as two, i. e. it ain't count letters
> (or runes) but bytes.

Indeed,

echo latin кириллица | /usr/local/plan9/bin/awk '{printf("%d %d\n", length($1),
length($2))}'

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Received on Tue Jan 22 2013 - 08:46:15 CET