This is fixed in 4.1.3-0.1 (in xenial and later), it now says:
Using an alphabetic character such as 'u' for the record separator is
highly likely to produce strange results. Using an unusual character
such as '/' is more likely to produce correct behavior in the majority
of cases, but there a
I reported this bug to the bug-gawk mailing list:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2012-04/msg00022.html
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in
