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

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Urmas" <davian818 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:51:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 9569, 10880, 12192, 13362

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From: "Urmas" <davian818 <at> gmail.com>
To: <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: TR operates on bytes, not characters
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:01:14 +0700

[coreutils 8.5]
tr is treating UTF-8 characters in SET1/SET2 as byte sequences.
Correct either  this, or manual, which states that SET1/2 are of 'characters', not bytes.
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