I have found a little bug in cut(i guess). See that:

a=danilo

echo $a | cut -c -5 # shows danil

a=dánilo

echo $a | cut -c 5 # shows dáni

The option -b equal works. The cut is ignoring the letters with acentuation.

I read in infopages this:

`-c CHARACTER-LIST'

`--characters=CHARACTER-LIST'

Select for printing only the characters in positions listed in

CHARACTER-LIST. The same as `-b' for now, but

internationalization will change that. Tabs and backspaces are

treated like any other character; they take up 1 character. If an

output delimiter is specified, (see the description of

`--output-delimiter'), then output that string between ranges of

selected bytes.

"The same as `-b' for now, but

internationalization will change that.". Has not been changed?

This is my locale:

LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8

LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en

LC_CTYPE="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_NUMERIC="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_TIME="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_COLLATE="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_MONETARY="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_MESSAGES="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_PAPER="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_NAME="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_ADDRESS="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_TELEPHONE="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_MEASUREMENT="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="pt_BR.UTF-8"

LC_ALL=

and the cut version is: cut (GNU coreutils) 7.4

Thanks,

Danilo S. Morães