If not going to fix, at least the wc info page should mention something about, $ wc bla.tar.gz 2>&1|head -2 wc: bla.tar.gz:1: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character wc: bla.tar.gz:2: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character P.S., LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5, wc (coreutils) 5.2.1, wc -l not affected.
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