bug#20114: tr does not support multibyte characters in the first argument

2015-03-15 Thread Bruno Haible
POSIX [1] specifies that the recognition of characters in 'tr' depends on the environment variables LANG, etc. But trying to replace a multibyte character by another character does not work: $ echo $LANG de_DE.UTF-8 $ enspace=`printf '\u2002'` $ echo -n "X${enspace}Y" | tr "${enspace}" ' ' | od -

bug#20094: cp --dry-run

2015-03-15 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 03/13/2015 05:58 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > I'm pretty much sure I can successfully cp/mv entire > complicated tree A onto entire complicated tree B, but it would be great > to know before I get started if deep inside B there is something that > will cause some tiny part of the whole operatio

bug#20111: nice.1, renice.1 and nice.info : claims non-root user cannot decrease niceness

2015-03-15 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Hello, I had you followed a bug reported by a Ubuntu user [1] about "nice value" change: According to "man nice" and "info coreutils nice", it is not possible for a non-root user to decrease the niceness of a process (even if they were the ones that increased the niceness). However t