Subject: Re: bug#79366: paste -d option not accepting UTF-8

From: Collin Funk <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:56:42 -0700

avidseeker via GNU coreutils Bug Reports <[email-masked]> writes:

> $ paste -d "␞" file1 file2
>
> results in ␞ (U+241e) character being converted to � (U+FFFD)
>
> paste command doesn't seem to support UTF-8 characters.

Thanks for the report. This is a long standing issue with more than just
paste [1].

I hope to improve the situation after the next release.

Collin

[1] https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils_i18n/