Re: [Gnuplot-info] "sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence" while compiling gnuplot 6.0.0 on macos 13.6.3

[Ethan M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Monday, 8 January 2024 10:49:48 PST Ingo Thies wrote:
> Dear Ethan,
> 
> I have just solved this by installing gsed and setting a symlink to sed.
> It seems that Apple's version of sed is outdated. Inserting LC_ALL=C in
> front of every sed command in the Makefile seems to be lot of work, so
> I'm happy about my solution, although it might be a bit dirty.

It would not be every sed command.  
This one command is special since it is the makefile rule that converts
from the Japanese documentation EUC-JP encoding to UTF-8.
Everywhere else is UTF-8 already.

	Ethan

> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
> 
> Am 08.01.24 um 19:44 schrieb Ethan Merritt:
> > On Monday, 8 January 2024 09:50:35 PST Ingo Thies via gnuplot-info wrote:
> >> Dear everyone,
> >>
> >> I get the following error when I try to compile gnuplot 6.0.0:
> >>
> >> trm ja/term/webp.trm ja/term/win.trm ja/term/wxt.trm ja/term/x11.trm
> >> ja/term/xlib.trm |\
> >>            LC_ALL=C sort -f -t':' -k2` ; do \
> >>         f=`echo $e |cut -d\: -f1` ; s=`echo $e | cut -d\: -f2` ;\
> >>         sed -n "/^[     ]*$s/,/^[     ]*END_HELP/p" $f ; \
> >>       done >allterm.tmp
> >> sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence
> >> ...
> >>
> >> My system is macos 13.6.3 Ventura, I am using a bash shell.
> > Please see Bug report #2676
> >      https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2676/
> >
> > Can you confirm that inserting "LC_ALL=C" immediately in front of "sed"
> > fixes this?
> >
> > 	Ethan
> >
> >> Regards,
> >> Ingo
> >>
> >>
> >>
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