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

[John Cowan]

Eli Zaretskii scripsit:

> AFAIK, Sed uses bytes, not characters.

Definitely not.  Look at the following:

$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
$ cat >foo
föö
(Ctrl-D)
$ wc -c foo
6 foo
(including the newline; therefore the file is UTF-8)
$ sed -n '/^...$/p' <foo
föö
$ sed -n '/^.....$/p' <foo
$

So the regex matches 3 characters, not 5 bytes.

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