Re: tr is handling bytes not characters

[Eric Blake]

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According to Nick Demou on 2/5/2009 4:20 AM:
> And now about the bug report. It's about "tr". I realized that tr was
> mostly failing when working on utf-8 input.

Thanks for the report.  It is a known problem that coreutils does not yet
properly support multi-byte characters (this includes UTF-8), because no
one has yet contributed a patch that efficiently supports this without
penalizing maintenance or performance of single-byte code paths, while
still useful across the wide range of coreutils that need it (more than
just tr are affected).  Several distros have written add-on patches which
attempt to provide multibyte support, but none of those patches has been
incorporated upstream.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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