Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8

[Paul Jarc]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> Options to the 's' command are all pure-ASCII single-byte characters,
> so Sed is correct in this case, I think.

I don't think so.  The example doesn't violate that rule.  The unknown
option is "/".  But due to a multibyte character in the pattern, the
offset is either miscalculated (should say "11" instead of "12") or
badly described (should say "byte" instead of "char").


paul