Ingo Schwarze wrote:
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> The insight that Ted asked for is that
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> * in contrast to the other programs (ls, rs, ul), cut(1) isn't
>merely doing the same things with multibyte characters that it
>used to do with single byte characters; it grows substantial
>new, user-visible
Hi Ted,
Ingo Schwarze wrote on Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 06:56:37PM +0100:
> Ted Unangst wrote on Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 01:22:33PM -0500:
>> One other program which I think will provide some insight is cut.
>> It cares, perhaps even more than others, about bytes and chars
>> and bytes in the middle of
Hi Ted,
Ted Unangst wrote on Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 01:22:33PM -0500:
> One other program which I think will provide some insight is cut.
> It cares, perhaps even more than others, about bytes and chars
> and bytes in the middle of chars.
The following fully implements -c. While here, reduce the