`expr length xxx` retruns the number of multibyte characters in RHEL8 and later.
Issue
- The output of
expr length xxxdiffers between RHEL 6 and RHEL 8 when multibyte characters are specified.
It returns the number of bytes in RHEL 6:
# expr length "あいうえおABCDE"
20
It returns the number of multibyte characters in RHEL 8:
# expr length "あいうえおABCDE"
10
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or later
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