Re: printf %.3s broken in UTF-8 locales in gawk 3.1.7

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re: this:

> Subject: printf %.3s broken in UTF-8 locales in gawk 3.1.7
> From: Pascal Terjan <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:22:00 +0100
>
> $ LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 awk 'BEGIN{printf("%.3s\n", "123456789" );}'
> 123456789
>
> $ LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-15 awk 'BEGIN{printf("%.3s\n",
> "123456789" );}'
> 123

This is a known problem.  It's fixed in the gawk-stable CVS.  Let
me know if you need a patch.

Thanks for the report,

Arnold