Re: tr doesn't work for multibyte encodings

[Jim Meyering]

Tim Waugh <address@hidden> wrote:
> In 5.2.1, tr doesn't work for multibyte encodings such as UTF-8.  Are
> there any plans to fix this?

It's most certainly on the list, (hmm.. it's been on the list in my head
for years, but wasn't listed in the TODO file -- I've just added it there)

The same applies to many of the other word/line/character-based programs,
like wc, fmt, cut, sort, etc.  Here's what I've added to TODO:

    Adapt tools like wc, tr, fmt, etc. (most of the textutils) to be
    multibyte aware.  The problem is that I want to avoid duplicating
    significant blocks of logic, yet I also want to incur only minimal
    (preferably `no') cost when operating in single-byte mode.