[Fwd: Gawk FIELDWIDTHS and multibyte characters]

[Hermann Peifer]

See below. Regards, Hermann


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Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk
From: Hermann Peifer <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:23:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Gawk FIELDWIDTHS and multibyte characters

Hi,

It looks to me that Gawk's FIELDWIDTHS extension is not aware of
multibyte characters, see my example below.

$ cat testdata
CDRegion              Commune             Site
SEVästsverige         Hallands län        Kungsbacka
SESmåland med öarna   Västra Götalands länGöteborg
SEKronoberg           Alvesta             Stenungsund

$ file testdata
testdata: UTF-8 Unicode text

$ awk 'BEGIN{FIELDWIDTHS = "2 20 20 20"}{print $4}' testdata
Site
  Kungsbacka
 länGöteborg
Stenungsund

Can someone confirm?

Hermann