Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hola Michael Stone!
>
>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:40:40PM -0300, you wrote:
>> >I've just verified, and with version  5.2.1-2 of coreutils, I can still
>> >reproduce the bug:
>> Yes, coreutils does not claim to handle utf-8.
>
> Will it ever handle it?  I guess you must know that UTF8 seems to be "the
> encoding of the future" :), and thus it's a good idea to handle it.
>
> The bug had no activity since 2003, and I'm re-checking old bugs to see if
> they are still present, so that they don't go forgotten.

FWIW, converting some of the textutils to deal with utf-8 is
most definitely on the upstream to-do list, but I don't know
when it'll be done.


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