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Re: fold not UTF-8 ready
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Eric Blake |
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Re: fold not UTF-8 ready |
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Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:54:43 -0600 |
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According to Dan Jacobson on 9/28/2006 7:07 AM:
> Fold splits UTF-8 chars into their bytes and probably doesn't know
> about their display width either.
Known issue. Search the archives. Basically, until someone writes an
implementation that makes it easy to perform multibyte operations across
multiple applications without penalizing single-byte locales, coreutils
does not do very well with multi-byte characters. Some distributions have
patches for this, but those patches do not satisfy the upstream rule of
clean across apps without penalty to single-byte, so those patches have
not been folded in.
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Eric Blake address@hidden
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