# Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:51:14 +0100

# From: Hermann Peifer <peifer@gmx.eu>

# Subject: [Fwd: Gawk FIELDWIDTHS and multibyte characters]

# To: bug-gawk@gnu.org

# Message-id: <47DD5E12.2010403@gmx.eu>

# 

# See below. Regards, Hermann

# 

# --- Original Message ---

# 

# Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk

# From: Hermann Peifer <peifer@gmx.eu>

# Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:23:38 -0700 (PDT)

# Subject: Gawk FIELDWIDTHS and multibyte characters

# 

# Hi,

# 

# It looks to me that Gawk's FIELDWIDTHS extension is not aware of

# multibyte characters, see my example below.

# 

# $ cat testdata

# CDRegion              Commune             Site

# SEVästsverige         Hallands län        Kungsbacka

# SESmåland med öarna   Västra Götalands länGöteborg

# SEKronoberg           Alvesta             Stenungsund

# 

# $ file testdata

# testdata: UTF-8 Unicode text

# 

# $ awk 'BEGIN{FIELDWIDTHS = "2 20 20 20"}{print $4}' testdata

# Site

#    Kungsbacka

#   länGöteborg

# Stenungsund

# 

# Can someone confirm?

# 

# Hermann

BEGIN { FIELDWIDTHS = "2 20 20 20" }

{ print $4 }