Bruno Haible wrote: > If you want wc to count characters after canonicalization, then you can > invent a new wc command-line option for it. But I would find it more useful > to have a filter program that reads from standard input and writes the > canonicalized output to standard output; that would be applicable in many > more situations.
I like the sound of that! I suppose the not-yet-implemented gnulib Unicode normalization library you mentioned in another post would be a prerequisite for such a tool. I'm definitely interested in helping out here, but I think someone with a more thorough understanding of Unicode would probably be more useful (Pádraig?) Bo _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils