Subject: Re: bug#24924: GNU pr only working with singlebyte 1-width characters

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:37:05 -0800

On 11/30/2016 03:30 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> That can also be seen as a POSIX conformance bug

Not really, as POSIX does not require support for UTF-8 (except in the 
pax utility, which is not part of coreutils).

It'd be nice if pr etc. could be made to work cleanly for UTF-8. In the 
meantime if you could submit a patch for the documentation that should 
fix the immediate documentation problem.