Jeff Martens wrote:
> wc version 4.5.3 is produces the following error message:
Thank you for taking the time to report this problem.
> wc: /mnt/floppy/teaching.pdf:2447: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
>
> wc is supposed to count lines, words, and bytes, and so should not
> even be aware that it's reading multibyte characters. Thus, this
> error message indicates an error condition within wc, and not an
> issue with the input data. I've gone to a more useful version of
> wc, but it'd be nice to have correct behavior in the standard
> distribution.
Version 4.5.3 is rather old. Would you be able to upgrade to a newer
version and try again? I can't reproduce your problem.
Latest test release:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.1.2.tar.gz (6.2MB)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.1.2.tar.bz2 (4.1MB)
Latest stable release:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2
(coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)
Also, I suspect locales are affecting this. Can you try unsetting
LANG or setting LC_ALL=C and seeing if that solves the problem?
LC_ALL=C wc teaching.pdf
Bob
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