On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 06:16:32PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO-4.html > > > > This is still silent about Grep, Sort, and tr, which are > > the utilities where the non-ASCII support should be a non-trivial > > change.
sort works in most cases already, by calling strcoll. grep needs proper Unicode regexp support, but otherwise also works (by design of UTF-8). trs (from the konwert package) should do everything you need tr to do. > Today, these tiny tools mostly lead people to write extremely inefficient > shell scripts that spend 90% of their time in fork(). CPU time is cheap. Rewriting shell scripts in another language has always been a good means of optimization, but for run-once or even run-rarely, shell is fine. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less." - "Disciple", Stuart Davis - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
