You mailed submit@debbugs without specifying a Package:, so your bug report ended up on the help-debbugs list. I have reassigned it to coreutils. (Please note there is no "wc" package.)
(My mailer is messing up the UTF-8 characters in your report. Interested parties can see the original at http://debbugs.gnu.org/20751#5 .) Valdis V toli wrote: > Version: wc (GNU coreutils) 8.21 > > When 'wc -m' is invoked, it should print character count, but it counts > incorrectly UTF-8 encoded characters. Attached files have 3, 4 an 6 > bytes in them, but all have only two UTF-8 encoded characters, which you > can see with any modern text editor. > > wc -c chows correct number of bytes: > wc -c * > 3 3bytes.txt > 4 4bytes.txt > 6 6bytes.txt > 13 total > > But wc -m shows incorrect number of characters: > wc -m * > 3 3bytes.txt > 3 4bytes.txt > 3 6bytes.txt > 9 total > > But should be: > wc -m * > 2 3bytes.txt > 2 4bytes.txt > 2 6bytes.txt > 6 total > > I am using Lubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (lsb_release reports Ubuntu), x86_64 > GNU/Linux 3.13.0-53-generic kernel > > P.S. > If attachments will not pass through system, you can test it by creating > files with following content: > > 3bytes.txt: aa > 4bytes.txt: aÄ > 6bytes.txt: að Attachments at http://debbugs.gnu.org/20751#5