X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Ralf Subject: length in gawk returns wrong value Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:50:21 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 18 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com The following lines create a file named ttt.txt. The file ttt.txt contains exactly what I want (oct 374 for the umlaut u). But if you look at the output of these lines you can see that the function length() of gawk can not handle this character: uname -a echo "Rücken" > ttt.txt od -c ttt.txt gawk '{print "Length: " length($0)}' ttt.txt Output: CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 WIESWEG 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin 0000000 R 374 c k e n \r \n 0000010 Length: 1 What can I do to get the correct length in gawk without changing the contents of ttt.txt? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple