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Kornshell doesn't seem to handle umlauts or other non-ASCII Unicode
characters correctly with the 'select' statement; the display shows
(for example)

1) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 15) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
2) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 16) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
3) |nbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 17) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
4) |nbcdefghijklmn||pqrstuvwxyz 18) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
5) |nbcdefghijklmn||pqrst|+vwxyz 19) |aBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
6) abcdre4fghijkl-|nopqrstuvwxyz 20) |aBCDEFGHIJKLMN|uPQRSTUVWXYZ
7) abcdre4fghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 21) |aBCDEFGHIJKLMN|uPQRST|LVWXYZ
8) |nbcdefghijklmn||pqr|ft|+vwxyz 22) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
9) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 23) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
10) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 24) |aBCDEFGHIJKLMN|uPQR?T|LVWXYZ
11) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 25) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
12) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 26) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
13) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 27) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
14) abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Somehow it obviously gets confused with the count of the number of
characters and the count of the octets in the encoding, thus the
formatting gets corrupted.

(Playing with other locales doesn't change that effect.)

Observed in ksh version AJM 93u+m/1.0.8 2024-01-01.

(Bash handles that correctly.)

Janis

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