Dear Assaf,
I agree that once multibyte support is added to fold(1), the man pages, the help screen and texi manual must be updated to clearly indicate the "-b/--bytes" only applies to \b \t \r and never to multibyte characters.
My suggestion for man-page: ========================== Old: --- -b, --bytes count bytes rather than columns New: --- -b, --bytes don't treat \b, \t, and \r specially My suggestions for info-page: ============================ Old: --- `-b' `--bytes' Count bytes rather than columns, so that tabs, backspaces, and carriage returns are each counted as taking up one column, just like other characters. New: --- `-b' `--bytes' Don't treat \b, \t, and \r specially. Instead tabs, backspaces, and carriage returns are each counted as taking up one column, just like other characters. My suggestion for --help-output =============================== Old: --- -b, --bytes count bytes rather than columns New: --- -b, --bytes don't treat \b, \t, and \r specially Hope this helps. Mark