Re: Enhancement request to wc

[Neo Anderson]

Not very sure whether I can send attach file or not. In this mail I've sent an 
attached file (file name is sample.big5), in which it contains 4 Traditional 
Chinese words encoded in BIG5. There is no white space between these 4 words. 

The content looks like "中文測試". 

The env I use is GNU/ Debian Lenny; kernel 2.6.27.8; gcc version 4.3.2 (Debian 
4.3.2-1.1); wc (GNU coreutils) 6.10; LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (Other locale settings 
e.g. LC_CYTPE are all en_US.UTF-8)

Please let me know if the file fails to attached or needs to upload to 
somewhere else. 

Thanks for your help,

--- On Sat, 7/2/09, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Enhancement request to wc
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Saturday, 7 February, 2009, 8:00 AM
> Neo Anderson wrote:
> > Hi 
> > 
> > I read the page at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/, saying that the
> enhancement request can go through this mailing list. 
> > 
> > My request is that I would like wc can also count
> multi bytes characters e.g Chinese Big5 correctly. 
> > 
> > Please let me know if any additional information
> required.
> 
> We're starting work on general multibyte support for
> coreutils,
> but `wc` should already be pretty good in the regards.
> 
> Could you provide a small example Big5 encoded file
> and expected output. Also it would help if you provided
> the version of sort, your operating system version
> and what locale you;re using.
> 
> thanks,
> Pádraig.
> 
> 
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sample.big5
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