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Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position whe
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Camion SPAM |
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Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8 |
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Thu, 16 May 2013 12:42:20 +0100 (BST) |
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Byte" is the only viable alternative, but that leaves the burden of
> counting bytes on the user.
If you use a very long sed script, this can be a problem.
I happen to write sed scripts that are more than 1000 characters long.
My last one is currently 1762 characters long and still growing.
That's why I wrote a little bash function which would show me
the n'th character. but this gave wrong positions on scripts with
UTF-8 chars.
The work-around is to change LC_CTYPE to C around the string
processing part in my bash function, but, I believe that since sed
supports multibytes characters, the error message should count
characters and not bytes. btw : the error message states that the
position is "char" and not "byte" :
sed: -e expression #1, char 12: unknown option to `s'
- sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8, Camion SPAM, 2013/05/14
- Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/14
- Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8, Paul Jarc, 2013/05/15
- Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/15
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- Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/16
- Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8, John Cowan, 2013/05/16
- Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/05/16
- Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8, John Cowan, 2013/05/16
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