A bug in cut?

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

If I made a file with an Arabic letter in one line and an English letter in 
the 
next line.
e.g.

ا
b

cut -b 1 file
will display a space before the English character. Is this a bug which should 
be reported to (bug-coreutils at gnu dot org)? ;)

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