The following reply was made to PR bin/36394; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: PR/36394 CVS commit: src/dist/nawk
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:08:03 +0300

 >  Add support for multibyte charsets in the "tolower" and "toupper" awk
 >  functions.
 Thank you for this.
 
 >  Code contributed by Aleksey Cheusov in PR#36394, and slightly
 >  tweaked for closer-to-KNF conventions by me.
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                what's this?
 
 >  Also slightly improved checks
 >  of error returns.
 And especially for this ;-)
 
 Minor note. According to man page wcrtomb cannot return (size_t) -2.
 
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 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.