Subject: bug#22064: expr: expr string : '.*' returns the number of matched bytes not characters

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:32:59 -0600

tags 22064 fixed
close 22064
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 30/11/15 02:09 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 
> that's another multibyte issue, it may be known already but I
> can't see it being referenced on debbugs.gnu.org.
> 

This commit added multibyte support to expr(1):
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=a9f2be5bfec2bfe86c0851787312996467a653ee

Available since coreutils 8.28 (released Sep 2017).

Closing as "fixed".

-assaf