Debian Bug report logs - #431231
tr: no UTF-8 support

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Package: coreutils; Maintainer for coreutils is Michael Stone <[email protected]>; Source for coreutils is src:coreutils (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Juhapekka Tolvanen <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:30:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, upstream

Merged with 139861, 388689, 613155, 649729, 721324

Found in versions coreutils/8.13-3, coreutils/5.97-5.3, coreutils/8.21-1, coreutils/5.97-5, coreutils/8.5-1, coreutils/5.96-3, coreutils/9.1-1, coreutils/6.10~20071127-1

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On Sun, 01 Jul 2007, +01:24:14 EEST (UTC +0300),
Bob Proulx <[email protected]> pressed some keys:

> merge 431231 139861
> thanks
> 
> Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> > ...report of a locale problem in tr deleted...
> 
> See also these related issues.
> 
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139861
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388689
> 
> It is a known deficiency in coreutils in general that the utilities
> are not multibyte aware.  The following can be found in the upstream
> source package TODO file.

Look at this:

% echo 'huuhaa öljy äiti über' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
HUUHAA öLJY äITI üBER
% echo 'huuhaa öljy äiti über' | /opt/heirloom/5bin/tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
HUUHAA ÖLJY ÄITI ÜBER

That Heirloom Toolchest is available here:

http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/

IMNSHO Debian project should package that toolchest, too. Maybe GNU
tools should be replaced with them, but that would be very radical.

Also other software from Heirloom -project should be Debian-packaged,
because they have superior UTF-8 -support when compared to
GNU-counterparts. For example their roff -implementation can handle
UTF-8 and OpenType-fonts.


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