Re: fold and multibyte characters

[Egmont Koblinger]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:31:41AM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:

Hi,

> Yes, this is a well-known deficiency of coreutils.  From the TODO document:
> Adapt tools like wc, tr, fmt, etc. (most of the textutils) to be

Ohhh, I grepped the TODO for "fold" before reporting it but found no match. :)

Btw "wc" is already multibyte aware, isn't is? It has a "-m" to count
characters, and "-L" also takes multibyte characters in account and counts
them as their wcwidth.

I'll check for patches in some distros, thanks for the idea.


bye,

Egmont