Reliability of Unix utilities: interesting article in CACM

[Heiko Blume]

heimir at rhi.hi.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson) writes:

>This is confirmed by the failure of so many utilities to cope whith my
>8-bit character data (Icelandic coded in ISO-8859/1, which is classified
>as a sort of 'random 8-bit junk' in some languages :-(

i heard Sys V R4 tries to fix those. what unix did they test, actually?!
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