On Sun, 01 Jul 2007, +01:24:14 EEST (UTC +0300), Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pressed some keys:
> 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. Look at this: % echo 'huuhaa öljy äiti über' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' HUUHAA öLJY äITI üBER % echo 'huuhaa öljy äiti über' | /opt/heirloom/5bin/tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' HUUHAA ÖLJY ÄITI ÜBER That Heirloom Toolchest is available here: http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/ IMNSHO Debian project should package that toolchest, too. Maybe GNU tools should be replaced with them, but that would be very radical. Also other software from Heirloom -project should be Debian-packaged, because they have superior UTF-8 -support when compared to GNU-counterparts. For example their roff -implementation can handle UTF-8 and OpenType-fonts. -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv "eiga wo miyou kimi no yakusoku dohri te wo tsunai de. yoru ni wa owakare desu ringo to ichigo ga kusaru mae ni. yume wa hirogaru kimi no yakusoku dohri kisu wo shi nagara." Dir en grey
