On 02/09/15 01:41, Michael Lee wrote:
> When using cut as, "cut -c 1" with a text file with Spanish characters, it 
> does not display those characters.
> For example, the character ã or á will not display if it is the first 
> character and the file is trimmed using the cut command.

Debian/Ubuntu do not use the i18n patch used in Fedora/RHEL/Suse for example,
and so do not support multi-byte characters. Now that i18n patch is
problematic and incomplete, and there are plans to bring the
functionality upstream at some stage:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils_i18n/

cheers,
Pádraig



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