Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:22:48 +0100 (BST) > From: Camion SPAM <[email protected]> > > In case of error in a sed program, sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8. > > $ sed 's/qwerty///' > sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unknown option to `s' > $ sed 's/qwérty///' > sed: -e expression #1, char 12: unknown option to `s' Options to the 's' command are all pure-ASCII single-byte characters, so Sed is correct in this case, I think.