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bug#21395: Bug with cut and Spanish characters from text file with UTF-8
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#21395: Bug with cut and Spanish characters from text file with UTF-8 encoding |
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Date: |
Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:03:10 +0100 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 |
On 02/09/15 01:41, Michael Lee wrote:
> When using cut as, "cut -c 1" with a text file with Spanish characters, it
> does not display those characters.
> For example, the character ã or á will not display if it is the first
> character and the file is trimmed using the cut command.
Debian/Ubuntu do not use the i18n patch used in Fedora/RHEL/Suse for example,
and so do not support multi-byte characters. Now that i18n patch is
problematic and incomplete, and there are plans to bring the
functionality upstream at some stage:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils_i18n/
cheers,
Pádraig