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bug#12115: Please add tip about using tac to reverse a file byte-by-byte
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
bug#12115: Please add tip about using tac to reverse a file byte-by-byte |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:23:25 -0800 |
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On 02/01/13 13:52, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> how about using a known unibyte-locale such as an ISO8859 one? Or is
> the problem then that there's none that can be guaranteed to exist?
Yes, that's the problem. POSIX does not require the existence
of any unibyte locale. Even the C locale might be multibyte,
and is multibyte, at least on OS X systems.