Re: How to make gawk aware of unicode characters?

[Peng Yu]

I am not sure how to do it specifically after reading that chapter.
Could you please some working code for my simple example?

On 1/6/23, david kerns <david.t.kerns@gmail.com> wrote:
> see chapter 13  - https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 7:56 AM Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use the following code to match no-break space.
>>
>> $ awk -e '/§\xc2\xa03/ { print }' <<< '§ 3'
>> § 3
>>
>> However, the unicode is U+00A0 instead of \xc2\xa0. Obviously, gawk
>> treats the input as a stream of bytes instead of Unicode characters.
>> Is there a way to let gawk be aware of Unicode characters so that I
>> can write something like \u00a0 as in many other languages?
>>
>>
>> https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?names=2&utf8=string-literal&unicodeinhtml=hex
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peng
>>
>>
>


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Regards,
Peng