Bug#782228: busybox sh: parameter expansion: string length ${#parameter} is incorrect on multibyte character

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Subject: Bug#782228: busybox sh: parameter expansion: string length ${#parameter} is incorrect on multibyte character
From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 14:52:20 +0200
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Control: retitle -1 busybox sh doesn't support multibyte characters in string handling

Same problem with:

  busybox sh -c 'case é in ?) echo OK;; esac'

which doesn't print OK in UTF-8 locales.

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