Bruno Haible wrote:
> As a consequence:
> - The number of characters is the same as the number of wide characters.
> - "wc -m" must output the number of characters.
> - In a Unicode locale, <U00E9> is one character, and <U0065><U0301> is
> two characters,
Fair enough.
> If you want wc to count characters after canonicalization, then you can
> invent a new wc command-line option for it.
I guess one would could possibly have --chars={unicode,glyph,grapheme,column}
with unicode being the default, and how it currently works.
> But I would find it more useful
> to have a filter program that reads from standard input and writes the
> canonicalized output to standard output; that would be applicable in many
> more situations.
That would be _very_ useful, yes.
thanks for all the great info in this thread,
Pádraig.
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