On 08/12/17 19:15, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> First,
> thank you for taking the time and effort
> to test our development snapshot, and reporting results back.
> This kind of feedback is critical in getting multibyte support ready.
>
>
> Second,
> I can confirm the behavior you are
Dear Assaf,
I agree that once multibyte support is added to fold(1), the man pages,
the help screen and texi manual must be updated to clearly
indicate the "-b/--bytes" only applies to \b \t \r and never to
multibyte characters.
My suggestion for man-page:
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Old:
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Hello Mark,
First,
thank you for taking the time and effort
to test our development snapshot, and reporting results back.
This kind of feedback is critical in getting multibyte support ready.
Second,
I can confirm the behavior you are observing, reproduced here
with 'od' for easier output:
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Dear Assaf,
the reason for the unexpected behavior of 'fold', namely that specifying
--bytes doesn't make it count bytes, is evident after a look at the source
code.
When --bytes is not specified, the program treats '\b', '\r' and '\t'
specially. It assumes a tab width of eight
Dear Assaf,
If you'd like to help us test these patches, please try
an unofficial development snapshot here:
https://files.housegordon.org/src/coreutils-multibyte-experimental-8.28.39-79242.tar.xz
I have taken a look and have an unexpected result:
fold (version 8.28.39-79242) reacts to my
Dear Assaf,
thanks for the clarification. Yes, I did mean Debian 7.
I didn't realise, quite how old my Debian was. I use it eight hours a day
and it is stable.
Considering you are using Debian 7 from 2013, and coreutils 8.13 from
2011, the fact it is 2017 is not very relevant.
I hadn't
Hello,
On 2017-12-07 03:10 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
I am using fold version 8.13 on a Debian 3.2.93-1
Do you mean Debian 7 (Wheezy) with Linux Kernel 3.2.93-1 ?
cat filename | fold
If 'filename' contains utf8 characters consisting of more than one byte,
fold will consider breaking the
Dear maintainers,
I am using fold version 8.13 on a Debian 3.2.93-1
cat filename | fold
If 'filename' contains utf8 characters consisting of more than one byte,
fold will consider breaking the line inside such a character. There is no
option to stop it doing that.
Except, of course "-s":
