bug#79824: fmt not correctly process text with UTF-8 characters encoding

Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:47:07 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/11/2025 15:14, Воронов Андрей Александрович wrote:
> Good evening,
> 
> When I run the fmt to make a text with default 75 columns width it properly convert only the Latin letters from ASCII.
> Russian & possible other not English/Latin (Greek, Cyrillic) characters which stored in two bytes in UTF-8 encoding
> are shorter 2 times accordingly.

Yes this is a known issue which we're gradually getting to.

thanks,
Padraig