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multibyte: pr has no concept of wide characters

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From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 24924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24924: GNU pr only working with singlebyte 1-width characters
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 07:04:05 +0000

2016-11-30 18:37:05 -0800, Paul Eggert:
[...]
> In the meantime if you could submit a patch for the
> documentation that should fix the immediate documentation
> problem.
[...]

What about:

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index cc85f22..6eb497b 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -1838,6 +1838,12 @@ For single
 column output no line truncation occurs by default.  Use @option{-W} option to
 truncate lines in that case.
 
+Please note that @command{pr} currently doesn't support multi-byte characters
+or non-ASCII characters that have a null or double width. If such characters
+occur in the input or column separators, column alignment may be off or lines
+may exceed the page width. There is also no provision to support bidirectional
+text.
+
 The following changes were made in version 1.22i and apply to later
 versions of @command{pr}:
 @c FIXME: this whole section here sounds very awkward to me. I

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