bug#48248: closed (tr docs: mention what to expect now vs. future)

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regarding tr docs: mention what to expect now vs. future
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> tr docs: mention what to expect now vs. future
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> Thu, 06 May 2021 07:00:04 +0800
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> (info "(coreutils) tr invocation") says
>    Currently ‘tr’ fully supports only single-byte characters.
>    Eventually it will support multibyte characters; when it does, the ‘-C’
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> And the man page has no warning at all. #BUG. Please add one.
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> BTW,
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> $ echo 哇|tr 哇 123
> 123
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> It works fine! (People will think.)
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> Therefore be sure to mention just when it will start failing, with real 
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> $ echo 哇|tr 哇 1
> 111
> $ echo 哇|tr 哇 1234
> 123
> $ echo 哇哇|tr 哇 1234
> 123123
> $ echo 哇哇姑五湖|tr 哇 1234
> 1231231__五湖
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> $ echo "22°56'52.2\"N 121°14'09.3\"E" | tr ° d
> 22dd56'52.2"N 121dd14'09.3"E
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> Also on the INFO page, give examples of, for the same input,
> what to expect now, and what to expect in the future.
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#48248: tr docs: mention what to expect now vs. future Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:18:46 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.0 Thanks for the bug report. This stuff about "the future" has been there for years so it's time to remove any predictions. I installed the attached revamp of the tr documentation to try to address the problems you mentioned, plus some others I noticed while in the neighborhood.

0001-tr-improve-multibyte-etc.-doc.patch
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0002-tr-mention-multibyte-problem-in-man-page.patch
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