Jim Meyering wrote: > 涂青 wrote: >> Dear bug-coreutils： >> cut (GNU coreutils) 7.6 can not work well in multi-bytes text > ... >> [r...@smsap smsuser]# echo "中国" | cut -c1-2 >> there is no output here > > Thank you for the report. > That is a known problem. > Here is the corresponding item from coreutils' TODO file: > > Adapt tools like wc, tr, fmt, etc. (most of the textutils) to be > multibyte aware. The problem is that I want to avoid duplicating > significant blocks of logic, yet I also want to incur only minimal > (preferably `no') cost when operating in single-byte mode.
I already replied along those lines, but perhaps I did privately by mistake. I also noted that the current cut included with fedora 11 at least is patched to support the example presented above. cheers, Pádraig.
