Re: Request: utf-8 support in `strings`

[Nick Clifton]

Hi B9,

> "Strings" is a fabulous and under-appreciated program. However, it only works 
> on text which has a fixed number of bytes per character such as Latin-1 or 
> UTF-16. Since almost all Unix systems now default to UTF-8 (which can be from 
> 1 to 6 bytes long), it would be wonderful if strings was updated to handle it.
 
Would you mind opening a bugzilla request for this enhancement ?

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=binutils

This will help us track the problem, and provide a suitable place
for other people to comment on the issue.

If possible, it would also help if you were able to provide a small
test file that uses UTF-8 encoding with at least some characters
being more than 1 byte long.  Supplying the correct decoding of these
strings would also help in order to make sure that we get the code
right.

Cheers
  Nick