Re: A bug in cut?

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

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 06:49 pm, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> No, you should use "cut -c 1 file", as you mean "a character",
> not "a byte".

No, behdad, I _don't_ mean a character, I _do_ mean a byte. Isn't an Arabic 
utf-8 character encoded in two bytes?

I think now it's a konsole bug since in gnome-terminal it worked Ok. This is 
one of the few components in GNOME where I think it's much better than it's 
kde counterpart. May be I need to file a bug to knosole maintainers. If it's 
still not clear I will send you a snapshot privately. If you can resolve it 
to something that would be a big plus in reporting the bug.

> On Thu, 13 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote:
> > 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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