Bug#500501: sed silently ignores invalid multibyte sequences on input stream

2017-03-07 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, The sed manual has been expanded to discuss locale and invalid multybyte sequences, incorporating some details from this thread. See: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=05800ee0b7 regards, - assaf

Bug#500501: sed silently ignores invalid multibyte sequences on input stream

2008-09-29 Thread Paolo Bonzini
> Sed silently ignores (or what it does? - no info) invalid > multibyte sequences in the input: no halt, no message, > no false exit-code. This is unfortunate but expected. "." does not match a bad sequence, see the fast path for UTF-8 in lib/regexec.c's check_node_accept_bytes: returning 0 means