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Re: Command "read -N " doesn't respect UTF-8 encoding
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Command "read -N " doesn't respect UTF-8 encoding |
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Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:37:22 -0400 |
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On 10/24/20 3:51 PM, info@kablex.ru wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> UTF-8 string piped to read command goes corrupt with -N option, e.g.
> printf "привет"|(read -N 100500 var_text; printf "$var_text" )
> returns some corrupt output "�#��#��#��#��#��#�"
Thanks for the report. This was fixed in bash-5.0.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/