merge 431231 139861 thanks Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > ...report of a locale problem in tr deleted...
See also these related issues. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139861 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388689 It is a known deficiency in coreutils in general that the utilities are not multibyte aware. The following can be found in the upstream source package TODO file. Adapt tools like wc, tr, fmt, etc. (most of the textutils) to be multibyte aware. The problem is that I want to avoid duplicating significant blocks of logic, yet I also want to incur only minimal (preferably `no') cost when operating in single-byte mode. Some vendors have hacked in patches to make the utilities multibyte aware but none of those patches have been considered clean enough to incorporate into the upstream source yet. Debian's maintainer has stated that he does not want to diverge from upstream this radically. The patches are very messy and incomplete. The best course of action would be to get this resolved upstream with the functionally properly integrated. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
