On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 04/18/2016 08:05 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: >> >> 'm afraid someone with access to MirBSD will need to debug it. > > On second thought there is a simpler fix: stop using btowc. I installed the > attached patch, which is a good idea anyway. By using only mbrtowc (which we > need to use anyway), it avoids problems on misconfigured systems like MirOS > BSD where btowc disagrees with mbrtowc. > > After writing and debugging this patch I looked at Gawk and noticed that it > already has its own equivalent of this patch's new mbrtowc_cache variable. > Gawk obtains its cache via btowc; although this doesn't work on MirOS BSD > due to its buggy btowc, Arnold says he's not worried about MirOS BSD any > more which is quite understandable. Still, it's a bit odd to have two caches > in Gawk that do the same thing; perhaps we can unify them at some point.
Oh! Very nice. Thanks yet again, Paul :-)
