bug#79366: paste -d option not accepting UTF-8

Collin Funk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
avidseeker via GNU coreutils Bug Reports <[email protected]> writes:

> $ paste -d "␞" file1 file2
>
> results in ␞ (U+241e) character being converted to � (U+FFFD)
>
> paste command doesn't seem to support UTF-8 characters.

Thanks for the report. This is a long standing issue with more than just
paste [1].

I hope to improve the situation after the next release.

Collin

[1] https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils_i18n/
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