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Re: [bug-gawk] GAWK for Windows does not work properly with UTF-8
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [bug-gawk] GAWK for Windows does not work properly with UTF-8 |
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Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:57:12 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:46:30 -0500
> From: David Niklas <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
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> 3. You could google on how to change the windowz codepage to UTF-8.
This particular suggestion won't help to solve the problem at hand.
Windows doesn't support UTF-8 as the locale's codeset, so all the
library functions used to work with wchar_t "wide characters", such as
mbrtowc, wcslen, etc. will not change their behavior if the codepage
is switched to UTF-8.