Re: utf8, macos x, and fmt

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:44:09PM -0500, John Lamoreaux wrote:
> Macos x has an old version of fmt (ca. 1993 according to the man page). 
>  When applied to UTF8 text (via |fmt), everything other than the ascii 
> characters seem simply to be dropped.  Does anyone have an idea where a 
> UTF8-enabled version of fmt might be found?  (As I'm not much of a 
> programmer, I would prefer one that would compile on the mac without 
> too much work.)

I think there are two things, here:

1. a version of fmt(1) which will not ignore any non-printable characters
2. a tool which will properly format UTF-8 text.

For the former, you should try out par:

	http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/

but I know nothing that fits the bill for the latter.

Regards,
Alistair