Subject: Re: bug#13362: tr does not work with UTF-8 locales

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:22:56 +0000

forcemerge 13362 9365
thanks

On 01/05/2013 11:53 AM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> The tr utility from coreutils-8.20 does not handle multi-byte
> characters in UTF-8 correctly.  It seems the arguments and standard
> input are read byte-by-byte instead of character-by-character.

We all agree that this is an issue.
Someone just needs to get the time to implement it.

thanks,
Pádraig.