Same here put only with UTF8 It seems gawk match is broken with UTF8 encoding. cf debian bug #385869 and #313411
** Changed in: gawk (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- LANG specific assertion failure https://launchpad.net/bugs/58371 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs