[dev] Re: [9base][awk] printf and utf-8

[Truls Becken]

On 2013-01-22, at 09:05, mauro tonon wrote:

> Also, awk can't know beforehand if the input string is UTF-8 encoded
> or not, so the only thing it can do is to count bytes....

Or take the Plan 9 approach of always assuming UTF-8.

-Truls