> $ export LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO8859-15 > $ echo "éé" | sed 's/é/\é/g' > sed: 1: "s/é/\é/g": RE error: trailing backslash (\)
I agree that's broken. > Since, to my knowledge, we do not support anything via iconv or > whatever, shouldn't we assume simply a string of bytes \`a la C, that > is: Seems to me there's a deeper problem. Even if something like iconv _were_ available, fr_FR.ISO8859-15 is a single-octet character set, so > - (void) setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); > + (void) setlocale(LC_ALL, "POSIX"); should, it seems to me, make no difference. Am I misunderstanding? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B