-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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.
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 (more than just tr are affected). Several distros have written add-on patches which attempt to provide multibyte support, but none of those patches has been incorporated upstream. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmK4dgACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDwzgCaA2DoZldDHwPWFerD4oHKDAEw ZP8AoK2FcW8KI2A6ORlbr2mQnFWgMLba =xnDC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
