Re: address@hidden: pgawk and Chinese]

[Aharon Robbins]

> To: address@hidden
> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
> Subject: pgawk and Chinese
>
> I did pagawk and my Chinese ended up like
>      1        print (("[" here) "\246\334]\245\330\274\320

Gawk has no knowledge that it's read Chinese characters.
It knows they're not in the range of ASCII characters and not
regular escapes, so it falls back to the least-common-denominator
representation of the source.

> You probably also want to make a pgawk.1 man page.  It can refer folks to
> the info page if necessary...

pgawk is documented on the gawk man page, which ought to do the trick.

Thanks,

Arnold