Re: [Grep-devel] handling of non-BMP characters

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 16 12:35, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:00 PM Corinna Vinschen <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...
> > I also don't quite get the point where Cygwin is getting the blame for a
> > screwed-up commit sequence in grep.
> 
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> The code that's been disconnected since grep-2.21 (from 2014-11-23)
> was cygwin-specific:
> 
> -#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> -      /* Handle a UTF-8 sequence for a character beyond the base plane.
> -         Cygwin's wchar_t is UTF-16, as in the underlying OS.  This
> -         results in surrogate pairs which need some extra attention.  */

Oh, I guess I misunderstood what you wrote:

  "I suppose it's a regression on Cygwin"

I interpreted this as "it's a bug *in* Cygwin" but you simply said it
occurs on Cygwin only, right?


Sorry,
Corinna