Subject: bug#12115: Please add tip about using tac to reverse a file byte-by-byte

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:23:25 -0800

On 02/01/13 13:52, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> 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?

Yes, that's the problem.  POSIX does not require the existence
of any unibyte locale.  Even the C locale might be multibyte,
and is multibyte, at least on OS X systems.