Re: sed error message reports byte position instead of char position when program contains UTF-8

Eli Zaretskii scripsit:

> How do you expect Sed to know what character set is being used for the
> command line?  Are we again going to limit ourselves to the current
> locale's charset?

I think it is a reasonable assumption that the command line uses the
same encoding that is used for the input files.  Nothing else will
make common cases like "sed 's/föö*/bär/'" work correctly.

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