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Re: fold UTF ready?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: fold UTF ready? |
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Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:03:38 -0600 |
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According to address@hidden on 10/13/2007 6:57 PM:
> fold (GNU coreutils) 5.97
Consider upgrading. The latest stable coreutils is at 6.9.
> * counts bytes, not columns, even without -b
> * has no compassion for multibyte chars, turning UTF-8 into illegal sequences.
You've brought this up before, and the answer is the same as before.
Coreutils does not yet support multibyte locales, because no one has yet
contributed a patch that is usable across all the coreutils that handle
text, which is easy to maintain, and which does not penalize performance
on single-byte locales.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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