GNU bug report logs - #31185
Why is there no full support for Unicode?

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Keepun <keepun <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Keepun <keepun <at> gmail.com>, 31185 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31185: [bug-diffutils] bug#31185: Why is there no full support for Unicode?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:45:40 -0700

On 04/17/2018 01:27 PM, Keepun wrote:
> why there are no plans to support UTF-16 and UTF-32?

Nobody has volunteered to do it, and there hasn't been a pressing need. 
UTF-16 and UTF-32 are primarily used for internal representation, not 
for text files. For more on the subject, please see:

http://utf8everywhere.org/
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