Subject: bug#7915: Possible off-by-1 in wc

From: Sune Mølgaard <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:18:19 +0100

sune@jekaterina:~$ echo Å|wc -m
2
sune@jekaterina:~$ echo Å|wc -c
3
sune@jekaterina:~$

Expected: 1 and 2 respectively.

wc is the one in Ubuntu Linux 10.10

Best regards,

Sune Mølgaard

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