Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Because I believe the definition I gave of it implied it was two
> chars wide.  But maybe I'm making wrong assumptions:

The compiler can add internal and trailing padding.

> My suspicion is that our test for GNUness of sed failed to diagnose
> this is GNU sed.

Possibly because it's not a GNU sed. :-)

> 
> Could you please run this:
> 
> echo 'xyz-xY' | sed 's/\bx.\b/XY/'

xyz-xY

I guess this means this it won't work.

/Johan

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