bug#24924: GNU pr only working with singlebyte 1-width characters

2016-12-01 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2016-12-01 07:04:05 +, Stephane Chazelas: > 2016-11-30 18:37:05 -0800, Paul Eggert: > [...] > > In the meantime if you could submit a patch for the > > documentation that should fix the immediate documentation > > problem. > [...] > > What about: [...] > +Please note that @command{pr} currentl

bug#24924: GNU pr only working with singlebyte 1-width characters

2016-11-30 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2016-11-30 18:37:05 -0800, Paul Eggert: [...] > In the meantime if you could submit a patch for the > documentation that should fix the immediate documentation > problem. [...] What about: diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index cc85f22..6eb497b 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi

bug#24924: GNU pr only working with singlebyte 1-width characters

2016-11-30 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2016-11-30 18:37:05 -0800, Paul Eggert: > On 11/30/2016 03:30 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > >That can also be seen as a POSIX conformance bug > > Not really, as POSIX does not require support for UTF-8 (except in > the pax utility, which is not part of coreutils). [...] POSIX does not require su

bug#24924: GNU pr only working with singlebyte 1-width characters

2016-11-30 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/30/2016 03:30 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote: That can also be seen as a POSIX conformance bug Not really, as POSIX does not require support for UTF-8 (except in the pax utility, which is not part of coreutils). It'd be nice if pr etc. could be made to work cleanly for UTF-8. In the mean

bug#24924: GNU pr only working with singlebyte 1-width characters

2016-11-30 Thread Stephane Chazelas
Only arguing on the classification of this bug here. Let's call a cat a cat. When something doesn't work as documented, it's a bug, not a wishlist entry. AFAICT, there's nothing in the GNU coreutils documentation that states that pr only works on input that consists exclusively of single-byte cha