Hello, On Tue, 24 May 2005, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Package: par > Version: 1.51-1 > Severity: important > > > Par does not handle UTF-8 multibyte characters properly. To introduce > this problem I made UTF-8 encoded text file of nonsense Finnish text > with some multibyte characters (ä's and ö's).
I am not maintaining par (yet) but just trying to help out :) I have not been able to find any program that does UTF-8 multibyte character left and right justification for text files. If you can point me to some source where I can find information on how this can be handled then perhaps I can try to figure out a patch to fix this. Meanwhile, the upstream source for par has not changed in a while so probably such a fix will have to be made for the Debian version only. According to the release notes "par" is OK with 8-bit characters but not multibyte so this is not a bug in the program vis-a-vis its documentation. Would it be OK with you if this bug was downgraded to wishlist? Thanks and regards, Kapil. --
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