Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: normal According to POSIX the fold utility is intended to fold characters, with the '-b' flag used to fold bytes instead. However, GNU fold will always fold bytes. Compare:
$ echo '$$$$$$$$' | fold -w 4 $ echo '££££££££' | fold -w 4 The former will produce 2 lines, while the latter will produce 4, since the UTF-8 character '£' consists of 2 bytes. The behaviour is identical when the '-b' flag is used. FreeBSD's fold treats multibyte characters correctly. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
