Nice you could track it down so quickly!.. I can see it is still in the recent versions (coreutils 8.5)
And yes indeed, I'm on fr_FR (or seems so, I don't have a LANGUAGE variable in env, but only LANG saying fr_FR) $ env | grep -i lang LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 GDM_LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 And just to be sure, if I do the opposite of your test above $ env LANGUAGE=en_GB:en od --help | grep strings -S, --strings[=BYTES] output strings of at least BYTES graphic chars ... it becomes right! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784758 Title: Wrong documentation for 'od' -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs