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Re: Enhancement request to wc
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: Enhancement request to wc |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 08:00:40 +0000 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) |
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.