Hi, I find it sad that such a bug in one of the most important packages doesn't even get a reply from the maintainer in more than four years.
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 04:00:48PM +0200, наб wrote: > -d delim > Set the field delimiter to the character delim. > The default is the <tab>. > -- >8 -- > > And so, one'd expect the following to hold: > -- >8 -- > $ echo яйцояЙЦО | cut -f 2 -d я > йцо > -- >8 -- > > However, GNU coreutils' cut yields: > -- >8 -- > $ echo яйцояЙЦО | cut -f 2 -d я > cut: the delimiter must be a single character > Try 'cut --help' for more information. > -- >8 -- > > Not sure how this is valid, > considering я is very much a single character? That being said, it works on OpenSUSE: ef9046429ed4:/ # echo яйцояЙЦО | cut -f 2 -d я йцо ef9046429ed4:/ # cat /etc/os-release NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" # VERSION="20251112" ID="opensuse-tumbleweed" OpenSUSE Tumbleweed currently has coreutils 9.9, so this might theoretically be something that got very recently implemented, but I doubt that. I guess it's some configure option. I recommend taking a look at OpenSUSE's compile time configuration. On the other hand, this change has the potential of breaking existing shell scipts. So it has to be carefully handled. Greetings Marc
