GNU bug report logs - #13957
multibyte: expand fails on non-ASCII

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Package: coreutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Thomas Wolff <towo@HIDDEN>; dated Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:52:01 UTC; Maintainer for coreutils is bug-coreutils@HIDDEN.
Changed bug title to 'multibyte: expand fails on non-ASCII' from 'expand fails on non-ASCII' Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.

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On 03/14/2013 03:10 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Hi,
> the coreutils 'expand' fails on multi-byte characters (test file attach=
ed).
> Please make it locale-aware.
> Kind regards,
> Thomas

You're in luck.
We're actually working on that at present:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-03/msg00024.html

thanks,
P=C3=A1draig.




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Hi,
the coreutils 'expand' fails on multi-byte characters (test file attached).
Please make it locale-aware.
Kind regards,
Thomas

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bug#13957; Package coreutils. Full text available.
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