Possible Unicode Problems in Busybox - Collect and Discussion
Harald Becker
ralda at gmx.de
Wed Aug 13 18:40:24 UTC 2014
Hi Paul !
>>> The POSIX standard says that ${#var} give the length of variable var
>>> "in characters". I can't find, offhand, a definition of "characters"
>>> in the standard
>>
>> D'oh! It was only in the most obvious place:
>>
>> 3.87 Character
>>
>> A sequence of one or more bytes representing a single graphic
>> symbol or control code.
>>
>> So it seems like bash has this right.
Oh, nice! If this it what the standards say, I like it. I just wanted to
be objective. A script breaker will it be anyway, any change on this.
--
Harald
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