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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: NICHOLAS BOEL
date: 2016-04-08 17:00:00
subject: Re: something different

Hello Maurice,

On 08 Apr 16 19:30, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> The second line seemed to wrap a little early.

 MK> That is where all the utf8 characters are which suggests to me that
 MK> Archlinux hasn't patched their coreutils package wrt utf8.  Not really
 MK> a big deal if you aren't planning to use any of the coreutils apps for
 MK> utf8 purposes.

Very possible. I'm currently using coreutils-8.25-1 so it's possible that patch
is only for this version.

 MK> At present I am using coreutils-8.25-i18n-1.patch which I got from the
 MK> Linux From Scratch people.  They list
 MK> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/coreutils.git/tree/ as their
 MK> source for their i18n patch.  I can confirm that it makes a difference
 MK> when using fold for utf8 word wrapping purposes.  I don't use it often
 MK> but it is something that gets a workout every now and then.

I'll definitely try to hit up some Archlinux maintainers and see if they would
be willing to add it. It's worth a shot.

Regards,
Nick

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