Hello, we're encountering a serious bug when migrating some of our data processing scripts from bash to ksh93. After a lengthily investigation we traced the problem down to ksh93's read command not supporting non-ASCII characters as delimiters (read -d) in the Unicode locale (en_GB.UTF-8).
Testcase: Try to read the string "x123€hello" via read and use the EURO symbol (Unicode 20AC) as delimiter: zsh returns the expected behaviour: > zsh -c 'printf "x123€hello\n" | (read -d "€" r ; printf "|%s|\n" "$r")' |x123| bash returns the expected behaviour, too: > bash -c 'printf "x123€hello\n" | (read -d "€" r ; printf "|%s|\n" "$r")' |x123| ksh93 in Redhat and Debian Linux FAILS: > ksh -c 'printf "x123€hello\n" | (read -d "€" r ; printf "|%s|\n" "$r")' |x123€hello | Any help would be appreciated because our migration deadline is soon (end of may 2012). Lionel _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
