Re: [PATCH 0/8] Add multi-byte support

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 11:31:43PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>
> Long story short:
> The recommended way was to add a sentinel character '.' at the end of
> the output within the command substitution and strip that off later
> with parameter expansion.
> But despite of the very special properties[0] of '.', it's apparently
> still required to set LC_ALL=C when stripping the sentinel, because the
> pattern matching notation in ${foo%.} is defined only on strings of
> characters, not on strings of bytes.

Are you talking about a theoretical undefined condition, or an
actual one?  Which shell doesn't deal with ${foo%.} correctly?

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