Hi Bruno, On 4/12/24 10:19 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > So, my feeling would be that the first thing to do is to create a new > unit test for it: > 1. so that we don't need to build and try GNU tar in order to see > whether there is a regression in the future, > 2. so as to cover the tricky cases as well (such as, near the end of > a line, a word that ends in 'Ä' or in some width 2 character).
Yes, that makes sense. Since GNU tar only has the case --opt=ARG single-line doc string where ARG can have 'Ä' or some other character. I'm not very familiar with localization or multi-byte encodings, but I can try to come up with a unit test with some inspiration from some other modules. Collin