Hey... I'm not sure if this is bug or if I'm using it wrong. As a matter of fact, I tested this on several systems, and on BSD-based systems (Mac) the tr tool gives different results -- the one I expected.
The simplest way to reproduce this looks like this (sorry, umlaut ahead): $ echo -ne "\xc3\x82" | tr -cd "ä" | xxd % 00000000: c3 . The echo prints a capital A with a circumflex (Â), and I expect the tr command to delete everything except the small umlaut ä. It looks as if tr just deletes the second byte. When I try without the umlaut it gives me the empty result, as expected: $ echo -ne "\xc3\x82" | tr -cd "a" | xxd [empty result] I tested several systems, the oldest is a Debian with coreutils 8.5, the newest an Ubuntu with coreutils 8.25. For the moment, I'll try to solve my problem differently, but... is this a bug? Thanks in advance! Regards, Ronald. -- There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. (Ken Olsen, DEC)
