ref: 9acc5109412df07a977cdedb4537ebd90a38da9f
parent: d801514094d1140dfc9f8571b9821082ddddf107
author: ozan yigit <ozan.yigit@gmail.com>
date: Wed Nov 15 10:24:08 EST 2023
man page update for 8-bit locales. thanks arnold
--- a/awk.1
+++ b/awk.1
@@ -586,6 +586,9 @@
.PP
Input is expected to be UTF-8 encoded. Other multibyte
character sets are not handled.
+However, in eight-bit locales,
+.I awk
+treats each input byte as a separate character.
.SH UNUSUAL FLOATING-POINT VALUES
.I Awk
was designed before IEEE 754 arithmetic defined Not-A-Number (NaN)
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