du's apparent-size options doesnt display correct file size.

[chomwitt]

Hello.

I've installed coreutils (8.32-4) in my Devuan system.

 
$ echo 'abc' > 3charfile.txt

$ du -h 3charfile.txt 
4.0K    3charfile.txt

$ du --apparent-size  3charfile.txt 
1       3charfile.txt


$ echo 'abcdefghijkl' > 12charfile.txt
chomwitt@enous:~/tmp$ wc -c 12charfile.txt 
13 12charfile.txt
chomwitt@enous:~/tmp$ du --apparent-size  12charfile.txt 
1       12charfile.txt

So my question is , shouldnt du report the number of chars=bytes as
apparent size?

chomwitt