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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
> Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Sunday, June 6, 2021 12:56 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: git clone w/o mainframe internet access
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> Hmmm.  In my desktop Linux, in sed regexen, both BRE and ERE, /./ matches a 
> character.  In awk /./ matches an octet.  Grrr.
> And printf field width specifications seem to assume octets, not characters.

Both awk and the usual linux implementation (gawk) have no capability to 
transparently process MBCS characters and have never had that capability.  They 
deal with 8-bit bytes only.

Numerous queries on the gawk-debug mailing list attest to that.

Peter
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