>>>>> "EB" == Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EB> According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/13/2007 6:57 PM: >> fold (GNU coreutils) 5.97 EB> Consider upgrading. The latest stable coreutils is at 6.9. I'll tell Debian to upgrade. >> * counts bytes, not columns, even without -b >> * has no compassion for multibyte chars, turning UTF-8 into illegal >> sequences. EB> You've brought this up before, and the answer is the same as before. EB> Coreutils does not yet support multibyte locales, because no one has yet EB> contributed a patch that is usable across all the coreutils that handle EB> text, which is easy to maintain, and which does not penalize performance EB> on single-byte locales. OK, the --usage then should note it just means things like tabs when talking about columns, else it sounds like multibyte is supported. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
