From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 12:54:01 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: NEWS: expand on the fold multi-byte enhancements
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doc: NEWS: expand on the fold multi-byte enhancements

* NEWS: Mention all of fold(1) got multi-byte enhancement,
with -c being an ancillary part of that.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 623223dedf..a1d1318cb2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -99,8 +99,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   Iranian locale (fa_IR) and for the Ethiopian locale (am_ET), and also
   does so more consistently for the Thailand locale (th_TH.UTF-8).
 
-  fold now supports the --characters (-c) option to count multi-byte
-  characters instead of the number of columns.
+  fold now supports multi-byte characters, honoring their column width.
+  Also the --characters (-c) option was added to wrap at a certain
+  number of characters, similarly to --bytes in uni-byte locales.
 
   nproc now honors any cgroup v2 configured CPU quotas,
   which may reduce the effective number of processors available.