Re: cut -d fails when using a multi-byte delimiter

[Assaf Gordon]

On 2019-03-27 3:24 a.m., Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:04:06 AM CET Tim Rühsen wrote:
>
> I do not think there was any problem with format of the submission.  As I
> understand it, the effort is now stalled because the lack of competent and
> motivated enough reviewers.

Respectfully, no.

Adding proper multibyte support for coreutils is an on-going
effort that started long before these specific patches
(for overview and details see 
https://crashcourse.housegordon.org/coreutils-multibyte-support.html ).

These patches complement some of the on-going patches,
while other aspects still need to be addressed.
(unfortunately they were developed from scratch instead
of relying on existing efforts, so merging them is also work).

As with all volunteer efforts, these things take time
(at least I'm a volunteer, not working for a company that supports
coreutils or free-software works).

A major hurdle is supporting more limited environments
such as cygwin, and yet I don't see redhat putting emphasis
on these efforts - so I can assume it is not a top-priority.

If we could assume only sane environments (e.g proper and efficient mbcs
libc support and 32-bit wchar_t) then all these features would've
been included long ago (IMHO).

regards,
 - assaf