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bug#12192: tr - bytes vs characters
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Eric Blake |
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bug#12192: tr - bytes vs characters |
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Mon, 13 Aug 2012 07:54:02 -0600 |
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On 08/13/2012 06:52 AM, Michael Stummvoll wrote:
> Hi gnu folks,
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> as already known, tr cannot handle multibyte-encodings like utf-8:
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>> address@hidden:~$ echo "foo" | tr o ö
>> fÃÃ
>
> i know, that multibyte encoding support is not needed for
> posix-compilance,
Actually, POSIX _does_ require multi-byte support; it's just that no one
has yet contributed code for this upstream that is easy enough to
maintain and without penalizing single-byte locales. Patches are welcome.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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