GNU bug report logs - #31033
multibyte: sort,uniq,join,tr,cut,paste,expand,unexpand patch

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Eric Fischer <enf <at> pobox.com>

Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 23:17:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

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From: Eric Fischer <enf <at> pobox.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] Multibyte support for sort, uniq, join, tr, cut, paste,
 expand, unexpand
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 15:18:14 -0700

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As previously discussed on the coreutils mailing list, beginning with

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00074.html

most of the coreutils text processing commands process bytes instead of
characters, regardless of the user's locale, so they do not handle UTF-8
text or options properly.

I propose the changes in

  https://github.com/ericfischer/coreutils/compare/multibyte-squash

to convert sort, uniq, join, tr, cut, paste, expand, and unexpand to
process characters instead of bytes, allowing them to work correctly on
non-ASCII text, as specified by POSIX.

Eric Fischer

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Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:18:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Changed bug title to 'multibyte: sort,uniq,join,tr,cut,paste,expand,unexpand patch' from '[PATCH] Multibyte support for sort, uniq, join, tr, cut, paste, expand, unexpand' Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:18:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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