Subject: bug#7372: fmt and multi-byte encodings

From: Ineiev <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:13:20 +0400

On 11/11/10, Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> wrote:
> We're starting to apply multi-byte support,
> so hopefully this will be fixed soon.

Could you provide a link?

> $ echo "1 2 æ 4 5 6" | fmt -w6
> 1 2
> æ 4
> 5 6

While should be
1 2 æ
4 5 6

> That is with the official fedora
> version of `fmt`

I can confirm that fmt from official GNU coreutils-8.6 does the same.

Thanks,
Ineiev