Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME

[Christian Neukirchen]

address@hidden writes:

> I am not at all secure about how the standard GNU utilities will handle
> non-ascii characters. For example, 'wc -c', just counts bytes. True, the man
> page talks about bytes, not characters, but I am still left uncomfortable.

GNU wc(1) has -m for that:

% echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
% echo 'äöü' | wc -c
7
% echo 'äöü' | wc -m
4

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