Re: pgawk and Chinese

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
> Date: 22 Jun 2001 07:16:09 +0800
> 
> A> Gawk has no knowledge that it's read Chinese characters.
> A> It knows they're not in the range of ASCII characters and not
> A> regular escapes, so it falls back to the least-common-denominator
> A> representation of the source.
> 
> I'd say: if the programmer put non-ASCII characters in the source of a
> program, he is probably able to deal with it in a pgawk listing of his
> source.

What Arnold was trying to tell was that _pgawk_ doesn't yet know how
to deal with strings of non-ASCII text in programs.  It's an issue of
missing code, not bad assumptions in the existing code.

> P.S. $ pgawk --help should say "do man gawk, or better: info gawk" more
> explicitly than now.

GNU programs don't say that, because it is a truism that every program
is documented in its Info manual ;-)