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Hi, I have a BIG5 encoded file.. and when I use the command "wc" on it, it always returns the error "Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character". Why does ...
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  1. 03-14-2003 #1
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    Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

    Hi,

    I have a BIG5 encoded file.. and when I use the command "wc" on it, it always returns the error "Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character".

    Why does this occur?

    Thanks!
    YS
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    What is your value of $LANG?
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    hi

    wow.. i think you've pin point the problem.

    LANG=en_US.UTF-8

    On a system which the "wc" command works with no problem, the "UTF-8" string is not there... shall I make LANG=en_US?

    But... why does this problem occur if UTF-8 is there?

    Regards,
    Yee Seng.
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    Nah, the thing is that without UTF-8, it won't use Unicode at all, so it may very well report that the file is double its real size. Or really, it will report the real size, but double the character count.
    However, I have no immediate answer for what's wrong.
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