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cut does not yet support unicode characters

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From: Danilo Moraes <moraesdno <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: a bug in cut
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:39:14 -0300

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I have found a little bug (i guess). See that:

a=danilo
echo $a | cut -c -5 # shows danil

a=dánilo
echo $a | cut -c 5 # shows dáni

The option -b equal works. The cut is ignoring the letters with acentuation.

I read in infopages this:

`-c CHARACTER-LIST'
`--characters=CHARACTER-LIST'
     Select for printing only the characters in positions listed in
     CHARACTER-LIST.  The same as `-b' for now, but
     internationalization will change that.  Tabs and backspaces are
     treated like any other character; they take up 1 character.  If an
     output delimiter is specified, (see the description of
     `--output-delimiter'), then output that string between ranges of
     selected bytes.

"The same as `-b' for now, but
     internationalization will change that." this solves my problem? How it
works?

Thanks,

Danilo S. Morães

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