Hi,
Please see more detailed analysis in bug #555922 that I filed against
libc (because in fact sed's regex implementation is based on, or is a
copy of libc's one and this bug affects many more packages).
In my opinion, the proper solution for sed would be:
1. --binary option should throw sed in
In my opinion, the proper solution for sed would be:
1. --binary option should throw sed in a true binary mode without any
knowledge of UTF-8 or any other multibyte encodings. This would allow
to process binary files without any UTF-8 logic. And this would allow
direct manipulation of
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Paolo Bonzini bonz...@gnu.org wrote:
--binary is strictly for Windows support. There is already one such
mode, it's called LANG=C.
I didn't think about that. Thanks.
From http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html
A period ( '.'
From http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html
A period ( '.' ), when used outside a bracket expression, is a BRE
that shall match any character in the supported character set except
NUL.
My point here is that current implementation of regexes makes '.' NOT
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