[Bug 1414316] Re: cut() does not handle unicode properly

[Andrew McCarthy]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 875713 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875713

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 875713
   cut fails to handle correctly utf-8

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Title:
  cut() does not handle unicode properly

Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  $ echo 哈哈
  哈哈

  $ echo 哈哈 | cut -c 2-
  ��哈

  Apparently, Red Hat patched this in or before FC15.
  http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15961/coreutils-that-are-utf-aware
  [patches at holocene ~]$ rpm -q coreutils
  coreutils-8.10-2.fc15.x86_64
  [patches at holocene ~]$ echo 哈哈 | cut -c 2-
  哈

  The patch is here:
  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/coreutils-
  i18n.patch?id=6e10f376996b64f538259091a524df2249b653fb;id2=HEAD

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: coreutils 8.21-1ubuntu5.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-generic 3.13.11-ckt12
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Sat Jan 24 10:06:25 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-22 (611 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-01-04 (19 days ago)

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