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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: NICHOLAS BOEL
date: 2016-03-08 17:10:00
subject: Re: do it again, and do i

Hello Maurice,

On 08 Mar 16 13:28, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MK>   :read !gawk 'BEGIN {print length("Møøse")}'
 MK> 7

 MK> whereas;

 MK>   :read !LANG=en_CA.utf8 gawk 'BEGIN {print length("Møøse")}'
 MK> 5

 MK> Note the difference when deploying locale definitions for char.  This
 MK> behavior has a major impact on word wrapping.  Just for a laugh try
 MK> this and see what happens;

 MK>   LANG=en_US.utf8 golded

I did just that, but then again my locale is always set at that. I don't see
any difference at the moment.. but things could change. :)

Regards,
Nick

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