standards/38127: awk's: regexps should treat { and } as special, but as regular characters

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>Number:         38127
>Category:       standards
>Synopsis:       awk's: regexps should treat { and } as {n,m}, but as regular 
>characters
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    standards-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 29 19:20:00 +0000 2008
>Originator:     cheusov%tut.by@localhost
>Release:        NetBSD 4.0_STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD chen.chizhovka.net 4.0_STABLE NetBSD 4.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #2: 
Tue Dec 25 17:42:38 EET 2007 
cheusov%chen.chizhovka.net@localhost:/srv/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
NetBSD version of awk (nawk) violates SUS when treating curly braces as
regular characters.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_04

>Fix:

Unknown