Bug 10445

Summary:	UTF-8 support is next to nonexistent
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Michael Shigorin <mike>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	placeholder <placeholder>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	arseny, glebfm, ldv, omarandemad, placeholder, vt, zerg
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/devel/2006-October/037964.html
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	10446

Description Michael Shigorin 2006-12-18 12:58:02 MSK

It's known that GNU coreutils don't really work with Unicode at this time (even
utilities like tr and sed); there are limited attempts to remedy this at RH:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120933

and there's a corresponding bug in Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139861

Probably something could be cleanroomed from the Heirloom Toolchest which claims
to support UTF-8 and at least tr and sed do:
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/tools.html

Regarding tr:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2003-08/msg00224.html

Some more (aging) patches are available here:
http://www.openi18n.org/subgroups/utildev/dli18npatch2.html

Comment 1 Michael Shigorin 2006-12-26 11:25:33 MSK

*** Bug 10520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2008-04-24 15:24:48 MSD

current state of things:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-04/msg00231.html

BTW, multibyte support in grep is awkward (grep works several _magnitudes_
slower in UTF-8), so I have to disable this "support" in scripts:
http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=hasher.git;a=commit;h=1.2.5-alt1-15-gd1764b6

Comment 3 Sergey V Turchin 2019-08-01 10:53:18 MSK

2 LDV: redmine#6375,6581

P.S.
Можно тоже удалить.

Comment 4 Sergey V Turchin 2019-08-01 10:54:50 MSK

Извиняюсь. Не заметил, что там дело уже пошло.

Comment 5 Arseny Maslennikov 2025-01-17 15:53:34 MSK

More like "UTF-8 support is next to omnipresent". Closing.