On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Jurriaan wrote: > A very long sed script that's been working for ages (back from the 1.5 > age) here has stopped working. > > It turned out sed doesn't like some strings anymore when environment > variable LANG is empty. With LANG=ASCII, there are no problems. > > The actual text in the SED command is shown below as spaces, but it's a > Swedish a with a small o on top of it, like this: > > sed -e"s/@a/ a/g;" > > where a is character 0xe5. > > Running with LANG=ASCII works, with LANG empty I get 'unterminated `s' > command' from sed (which confused me for a while).
With empty LANG you're using the default UTF-8 encoding, where that 0xe5 byte constitutes an incomplete character. You need to either run with a LANG setting that fits your script, e.g. C.ISO-8859-1, or convert your script to UTF-8. I'm puzzled as to why LANG=ASCII would have worked, since that's not a valid setting. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
