Re: tr is handling bytes not characters

[Nick Demou]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to Nick Demou on 2/5/2009 4:20 AM:
>> And now about the bug report. It's about "tr". I realized that tr was
>> mostly failing when working on utf-8 input.
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> Thanks for the report.  It is a known problem that coreutils does not yet
> properly support multi-byte characters (this includes UTF-8), because no
> one has yet contributed a patch that efficiently supports this without
> penalizing maintenance or performance of single-byte code paths, while
> still useful across the wide range of coreutils that need it

Thanks for the info Eric. I was almost sure this would be the case. In
fact I don't consider this as the main topic of my bug report. The
main topic for me is the documentation. The man and info page don't
make it clear that utf-8 is not supported. I believe that others after
me will spend a lot of time just to realize that "it's just a missing
feature".  Do you have any thoughts regarding my suggestions on the
documentation?

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:) REALLY good advice Eric.

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