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From:	Bengt Larsson <lists DOT cygwin2 AT bengtl DOT net>
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Subject:	A bug with UTF-8 output in a console
Date:	Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:31:45 +0100
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I think I have found a bug with UTF-8 output in a console in a UTF-8
locale ("C.UTF-8"). If an UTF-8 character straddles a write() boundary,
then the output gets garbled. 

An example program is attached.

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