Re: [patch] Add numerical suffixes to split

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> However, if you can find a few other people who say
>> they'd like that functionality and make a good case
>> for it, I'll reconsider.
>
> If you go that route, I'd suggest adding an option
> --suffix-alphabet=STRING, so that the user can specify
> an arbitrary alphabet to use when generating the suffix.
> The default STRING would be abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, as now.
>
> The current split.c is not portable to EBCDIC hosts, since it assumes
> that 'a' + 1 == 'b', 'b' + 1 == 'c', etc., and this is not true of
> EBCDIC hosts.  Adding support for --suffix-alphabet should fix this
> bug as a side effect.

I like that idea.
Do you want to implement it?

> One complication would be multibyte characters in STRING, though.