Dear Assaf, thanks for the clarification. Yes, I did mean Debian 7.
I didn't realise, quite how old my Debian was. I use it eight hours a day and it is stable.
Considering you are using Debian 7 from 2013, and coreutils 8.13 from 2011, the fact it is 2017 is not very relevant.
I hadn't seen it was quite so bad. Thanks for pointing it out.
If you'd like to help us test these patches, please try an unofficial development snapshot here: https://files.housegordon.org/src/coreutils-multibyte-experimental-8.28.39-79242.tar.xz
Will do. Mark
