GNU bug report logs - #9365
multibyte: tr: TR operates on bytes, not characters

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Urs Thuermann <urs <at> isnogud.escape.de>
Cc: 13362 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13362: tr does not work with UTF-8 locales
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:22:56 +0000

forcemerge 13362 9365
thanks

On 01/05/2013 11:53 AM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> The tr utility from coreutils-8.20 does not handle multi-byte
> characters in UTF-8 correctly.  It seems the arguments and standard
> input are read byte-by-byte instead of character-by-character.

We all agree that this is an issue.
Someone just needs to get the time to implement it.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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