Add Unicode chars mode: "goawk -c" or Config.Chars=true #243
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Use chars mode in index(), length(), match(), and substr(). This is based on the work done in #83, but the default is the other way around (default = bytes mode, which is the same as it is now).
Also only use Unicode chars in
printf %c
if chars mode is enabled. This changes the default introduced in #236 / v1.28.0 for that feature.This won't please everyone (defaults are the same as mawk, but not Gawk). But it's a pragmatic solution that allows people to opt into Unicode support if they want, and if they can handle the O(N) behaviour of those functions.