Re: Enhancement request to wc

[Pádraig Brady]

Neo Anderson wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I read the page at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/, saying that the 
> enhancement request can go through this mailing list. 
> 
> My request is that I would like wc can also count multi bytes characters e.g 
> Chinese Big5 correctly. 
> 
> Please let me know if any additional information required.

We're starting work on general multibyte support for coreutils,
but `wc` should already be pretty good in the regards.

Could you provide a small example Big5 encoded file
and expected output. Also it would help if you provided
the version of sort, your operating system version
and what locale you;re using.

thanks,
Pádraig.