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bug#24924: GNU pr only working with singlebyte 1-width characters
From: |
Stephane Chazelas |
Subject: |
bug#24924: GNU pr only working with singlebyte 1-width characters |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Dec 2016 07:04:05 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
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
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -1838,6 +1838,12 @@ For single
column output no line truncation occurs by default. Use @option{-W} option to
truncate lines in that case.
+Please note that @command{pr} currently doesn't support multi-byte characters
+or non-ASCII characters that have a null or double width. If such characters
+occur in the input or column separators, column alignment may be off or lines
+may exceed the page width. There is also no provision to support bidirectional
+text.
+
The following changes were made in version 1.22i and apply to later
versions of @command{pr}:
@c FIXME: this whole section here sounds very awkward to me. I