Re: cut -d fails when using a multi-byte delimiter

[Eric Fischer]

I fixed this in
https://github.com/ericfischer/coreutils/commit/093e08f91318889d7159fa8ce6afa74650b66ea3
but
it and the rest of my multibyte fixes have been sitting unmerged for a year.

Eric

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 7:23 AM Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> was just trying to "grep saved *.log|cut -d‘ -f2" on a wget log file and
> get
>
> cut: the delimiter must be a single character
> Try 'cut --help' for more information.
>
> Well, I am in a en_US.UTF-8 locale and that ‘ is a single character for
> me (but of course not a single byte).
>
> $ echo -n ‘|od -t x1
> 0000000 e2 80 98
>
>
> As a work-around i can use awk, but cut is just so cute and handy :-)
>
> Are there any plans to implement multi-byte support for -d ?
>
> Regards, Tim
>
>