On 1 February 2013 21:46, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 02/01/13 13:43, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > What about a way to do it on a GNU system? > > I think it works if you set LC_ALL='C', as the > C locale is unibyte on a GNU system, but someone > should double-check this. > A bit of searching does not reveal to me how to verify or disprove this, but how about using a known unibyte-locale such as an ISO8859 one? Or is the problem then that there's none that can be guaranteed to exist? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org