Re: fold UTF ready?

[jidanni]

>>>>> "EB" == Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

EB> According to address@hidden on 10/13/2007 6:57 PM:
>> fold (GNU coreutils) 5.97

EB> Consider upgrading.  The latest stable coreutils is at 6.9.

I'll tell Debian to upgrade.

>> * counts bytes, not columns, even without -b
>> * has no compassion for multibyte chars, turning UTF-8 into illegal 
>> sequences.

EB> You've brought this up before, and the answer is the same as before.
EB> Coreutils does not yet support multibyte locales, because no one has yet
EB> contributed a patch that is usable across all the coreutils that handle
EB> text, which is easy to maintain, and which does not penalize performance
EB> on single-byte locales.

OK, the --usage then should note it just means things like tabs when
talking about columns, else it sounds like multibyte is supported.