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authortjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2002-06-08 08:08:47 +0000
committertjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>2002-06-08 08:08:47 +0000
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Document cut(1)'s deficiencies in dealing with multibyte characters in the
BUGS section. These will be easy to fix when we have wide character stdio.
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@@ -137,3 +137,17 @@ The
.Nm
utility conforms to
.St -p1003.2-92 .
+.Sh BUGS
+The
+.Fl c
+option is a synonym for the
+.Fl b
+option, which causes incorrect behaviour in locales that support
+multibyte characters.
+.Pp
+When operating on fields
+.Pq Fl f No option is specified ,
+.Nm
+does not recognise multibyte characters, and the
+.Ar delim
+character is recognised in the middle of multibyte sequences.
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