Subject: bug#13957: expand fails on non-ASCII

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:26:51 +0000

On 03/14/2013 03:10 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Hi,
> the coreutils 'expand' fails on multi-byte characters (test file attached).
> Please make it locale-aware.
> Kind regards,
> Thomas

You're in luck.
We're actually working on that at present:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-03/msg00024.html

thanks,
Pádraig.