GNU bug report logs - #16168
uniq mis-handles UTF8 (8bit) characters

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Shlomo Urbach <urbach <at> google.com>

Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:56:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Shlomo Urbach <urbach <at> google.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: uniq mis-handles UTF8 (8bit) characters
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:50:15 +0200

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Lines with CJK letters are deemed equal by length only, since the
characters seem to be ignored.
I understand this is due to locale.
But, it would be nice if a simple flag would do a locale-free comparison
(i.e. equal = all bytes are equal).

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