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Find a way to deal with UTF-8 with old awk versions #24
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Activity
9d05c95 should correct that:
if a version ofawkdoesn't get the length of UTF-8 right, and ificonvis found,box.shconverts the text to ISO-8859-15 (an 8 bit encoding of european characters), pass it tobox.awk, and pass the result toiconvagain to get back UTF-8.
The script
box.awkdisplays a frame around a text file. Some versions ofawk(for example the one on macOS or BSD) do not return the correct length on UTF-8 string:When the text file contains non-ASCII characters, the right border isn't aligned properly. One way to deal with that could be to try using
iconv(POSIX, but not installed everywhere by default) :UTF-8 -> ISO-something -> box -> UTF-8.Doing that would make it possible to completely remove the
box8.pyscript.A similar thing could be used when the detected locale is not UTF-8.