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24
25This file lists all bug fixes, changes, etc., made since the
26second edition of the AWK book was published in September 2023.
27
28Oct 30, 2023:
29	multiple fixes and a minor code cleanup.
30	disabled utf-8 for non-multibyte locales, such as C or POSIX.
31	fixed a bad char * cast that causes incorrect results on big-endian
32	systems. also fixed an out-of-bounds read for empty CCL.
33	fixed a buffer overflow in substr with utf-8 strings.
34	many thanks to Todd C Miller.
35
36
37Sep 24, 2023:
38	fnematch and getrune have been overhauled to solve issues around
39	unicode FS and RS. also fixed gsub null match issue with unicode.
40	big thanks to Arnold Robbins.
41
42Sep 12, 2023:
43	Fixed a length error in u8_byte2char that set RSTART to
44	incorrect (cannot happen) value for EOL match(str, /$/).
45
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48
49[This entry is a summary, not a precise list of changes.]
50
51	Added --csv option to enable processing of comma-separated
52	values inputs.  When --csv is enabled, fields are separated
53	by commas, fields may be quoted with " double quotes, fields
54	may contain embedded newlines.
55
56	If no explicit separator argument is provided, split() uses
57	the setting of --csv to determine how fields are split.
58
59	Strings may now contain UTF-8 code points (not necessarily
60	characters).  Functions that operate on characters, like
61	length, substr, index, match, etc., use UTF-8, so the length
62	of a string of 3 emojis is 3, not 12 as it would be if bytes
63	were counted.
64
65	Regular expressions are processes as UTF-8.
66
67	Unicode literals can be written as \u followed by one
68	to eight hexadecimal digits.  These may appear in strings and
69	regular expressions.
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