On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 20:22, Matt Taggart wrote: > The LSB Specification Authority group met today and they reviewed a couple of > the Problem Reports I had filed and gave responses. > > PR#0037 http://tracking.opengroup.org/lsb/publicpr/PRView?PR=0037 > This was the one for commands(coreutils,diff,cpio) multibyte support. They > issued an "Interpretation(INT) and these comments, > > "The SA agrees that for LSB 1.3 that the diff, fold, pr, > sort, uniq and wc utilities need not interpret sequences of multibyte > characters according to the LC_CTYPE category of the locale. > An interpretation is granted." > > This means that we would not be required to pass these tests as part of > certification. > > We now need to determine if we're willing to accept the resolution given, or > wish to appeal it. > > Any comments?
This may be late, and I apologize if it is, but: What about expand and unexpand, both of which seem to fail by my tests, and both of which are in coreutils?

