Re: uniq -c chokes on international characters

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>     After executing a uniq on a list of names, some of which contain
> accent characters, I noticed that the lines with acccent characters were
> not being consolidated into a non-repeating pattern.  For instance, the
> following is sampling of the output of a command line which counts the
> unquie posters to the nessus-devel list and their corresponding number
> of posts.
>
>       1 Luca Andreucci
>       1 Maciej Soltysiak
>       1 Marc Spitzer
>       1 Mark Curphey
>       1 Martin Maèok
>       1 Martin Maèok
>       1 Martin Maèok
>       1 Martin Maèok
>       1 Martin Maèok
>       1 Martin Maèok
>       1 address@hidden
>       1 Matt Petteys
>
> uniq --version
> uniq (coreutils) 4.5.3

Thanks for the report.
I cannot reproduce the problem using uniq from coreutils-5.2.1.
4.5.3 is a bit old.  Would you please get coreutils-5.2.1
and try that?

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2