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I posted the below bug report to the GNU awk bugs mailing list, 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2024-07/msg00000.html, the 
feedback there is that it's a cygwin or MSYS2 port issue, could you 
please take a look? I'm also posting this at 
https://github.com/msys2/mingw-packages/issues per the advice from the 
GNU bug list.

Regards,

     Ed Morton.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	odd behavior of length(), match() and field splitting with 
multi-byte characters
Date: 	Mon, 1 Jul 2024 05:56:02 -0500
From: 	Ed Morton
To: 	bug-gawk AT gnu DOT org <bug-gawk AT gnu DOT org>



Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: cygwin
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security 
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong 
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 
-fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/d/a/scallywag/gawk/gawk-5.3.0-1.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/gawk-5.3.0-1 
-fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/d/a/scallywag/gawk/gawk-5.3.0-1.x86_64/src/gawk-5.3.0=/usr/src/debug/gawk-5.3.0-1 
-DNDEBUG
uname output: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-22631 TournaMart_2023 3.5.3-1.x86_64 
2024-04-03 17:25 UTC x86_64 Cygwin
Machine Type: x86_64-pc-cygwin

Gawk Version: 5.3.0

Attestation 1:
         I have read 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Bugs.html.
         Yes

Attestation 2:
         I have not modified the sources before building gawk.
         True

Description:
         gawk is reporting odd lengths and matches of strings
         when multi-byte characters are involved.

Repeat-By:
         Someone on StackOverflow asked about a couple of issues they 
saw that, so far at least, no-one there can explain and seem to just be 
bugs.

         1) 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78676444/conditional-replacement-of-arbitrarily-large-strings-that-occur-at-arbitrary-dis#comment138715434_78676444 
and 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78676444/conditional-replacement-of-arbitrarily-large-strings-that-occur-at-arbitrary-dis#comment138720207_78676444:

         If we output 4 multi-byte characters as 10 bytes using:

             $ echo '61F09F948DF09F948E62' | xxd -r -p > file1
             $

         and run the following gawk command on it we get the output shown:

             $ LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 gawk '{print(length($0))}' file1
             6
             $

         i.e. 6 instead of 4. If we run

             $ printf 'F0989A9F' | xxd -r -p | LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 awk -F 
'' '{print NF, length(); for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) print $i}' | cat -A
             2 2$
             M-pM-^XM-^Z$
             M-^_$
             $

         it shows that what is intended to be single a 4-byte character 
is being treated as 2 characters, one 3 bytes and the other 1 byte.

         2) 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78690533/why-does-the-match-function-not-work-in-this-particular-situation

         If we create some input using:

             $ echo 
'3C6469763E3C6469763E5F3C2F6469763E5F3C68313E6162636465665F3C2F68313E5F3C2F6469763E3C6469763EF09F93853C2F6469763E0A' 
| xxd -r -p > file2

         and then run this on it we get the expected output shown::

             $ LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 gawk 
'{match($0,/^.*_<h1>(.*)_<\/h1>.*$/,a); print a[1]}' file2
             abcdef
             $

         but if we add the `IGNORECASE` flag we get a blank line output:

             $  LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 gawk -vIGNORECASE=1 
'{match($0,/^.*_<h1>(.*)_<\/h1>.*$/,a); print a[1]}' file2

             $

         unless we also remove the end of string delimiter, `$`, from 
the end of the regexp:

             $ LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 gawk -vIGNORECASE=1 
'{match($0,/^.*_<h1>(.*)_<\/h1>.*/,a); print a[1]}' file2
             abcdef
             $

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