Re: [bug-gawk] GAWK for Windows does not work properly with UTF-8

[David Niklas]

> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:40:56 +0100
> From: Marc de Bourget <address@hidden>
> 
> Hello Eli, do you have a little tipp how to use multibyte characters in
> character classes correctly, also combinated with negation [^??][a-z]?
> I have always thought that pattern matching is no problem with UTF-8,
> but character classes seem to be a problem. Are there workarounds?
> Can you please help me, please? THANK YOU VERY MUCH!   
1. You could install cywin, their library is different then the windowz
one.
2. Use L I N U X where UTF-8 happiness abounds.
3. You could google on how to change the windowz codepage to UTF-8.

Sincerely, David