[Fwd: gawk-stable: truncated printf output]

[Hermann Peifer-2]

I should have sent my below mail to this list in the first place. Sorry, Hermann

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: gawk-stable: truncated printf output
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:35:37 +0200
From: Hermann Peifer <peifer@...>
To: arnold@...

Hi Arnold,

I might be doing something terribly wrong, but it looks to me that gawk printf (gawk-stable from CVS) doesn't like the mikro sign in my ISO-8859-1 encoded text files. Printf output is silently truncated, see below.

LANG=C seems to fix the issue, but this shouldn't be necessary, should it?

Regards, Hermann


[peifer@whitefish:konti]> uname -a
Linux whitefish.eea.eu.int 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:55:12 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[peifer@whitefish:konti]> locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[peifer@whitefish:konti]> file DEMSLT07.PMT
DEMSLT07.PMT: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators

[peifer@whitefish:konti]> gawk-versions/gawk-stable/gawk 'FNR==1{print $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
COMPONENT suspended particulates <10 µm (air), day

[peifer@whitefish:konti]> gawk-versions/gawk-stable/gawk 'FNR==1{printf "%s\n", $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
COMPONENT suspended particulates <10

[peifer@whitefish:konti]> LANG=C gawk-versions/gawk-stable/gawk 'FNR==1{printf "%s\n", $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
COMPONENT suspended particulates <10 µm (air), day

[peifer@whitefish:konti]> gawk-versions/gawk-3.1.6/gawk 'FNR==1{printf "%s\n", $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
COMPONENT suspended particulates <10 µm (air), day

[peifer@whitefish:konti]> gawk-versions/gawk-3.1.5/gawk 'FNR==1{printf "%s\n", $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
COMPONENT suspended particulates <10 µm (air), day

[Hermann Peifer-2]

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: [Fwd: gawk-stable: truncated printf output]
From: Hermann Peifer <peifer@...>
To:
Date: 17/09/2008 09:52

> I should have sent my below mail to this list in the first place. Sorry,
> Hermann
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: gawk-stable: truncated printf output
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:35:37 +0200
> From: Hermann Peifer <peifer@...>
> To: arnold@...
>
> Hi Arnold,
>
> I might be doing something terribly wrong, but it looks to me that gawk
> printf (gawk-stable from CVS) doesn't like the mikro sign in my
> ISO-8859-1 encoded text files. Printf output is silently truncated, see
> below.
>
> LANG=C seems to fix the issue, but this shouldn't be necessary, should it?
> Regards, Hermann
>
>
> [peifer@whitefish:konti]> uname -a
> Linux whitefish.eea.eu.int 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:55:12
> EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> [peifer@whitefish:konti]> locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> [peifer@whitefish:konti]> file DEMSLT07.PMT
> DEMSLT07.PMT: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators
>
> [peifer@whitefish:konti]> gawk-versions/gawk-stable/gawk 'FNR==1{print
> $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
> COMPONENT suspended particulates <10 µm (air), day
>
> [peifer@whitefish:konti]> gawk-versions/gawk-stable/gawk 'FNR==1{printf
> "%s\n", $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
> COMPONENT suspended particulates <10
>
> [peifer@whitefish:konti]> LANG=C gawk-versions/gawk-stable/gawk
> 'FNR==1{printf "%s\n", $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
> COMPONENT suspended particulates <10 µm (air), day
>
> [peifer@whitefish:konti]> gawk-versions/gawk-3.1.6/gawk 'FNR==1{printf
> "%s\n", $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
> COMPONENT suspended particulates <10 µm (air), day
>
> [peifer@whitefish:konti]> gawk-versions/gawk-3.1.5/gawk 'FNR==1{printf
> "%s\n", $0}' DEMSLT07.PMT
> COMPONENT suspended particulates <10 µm (air), day
>
>
>
>

Any news on this case?

Hermann