From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:18:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc: cut: clarify that combining characters are not treated specially
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doc: cut: clarify that combining characters are not treated specially

This is for consistency with other implementations and since the
interface separates -b and -c it might in future support -g (graphemes).
Normalizing content with a filter seems like the most appropriate
approach anyway, as there are various normalizations possible including
case etc. rather than baking that into every tool
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 4352711b44..0f9d3e276a 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -6164,8 +6164,9 @@ string between ranges of selected bytes.
 @optItemx{cut,--characters,=@var{character-list}}
 Select for printing only the characters in positions listed in
 @var{character-list}.  Tabs and backspaces are
-treated like any other character; they take up 1 character.  If an
-output delimiter is specified, (see the description of
+treated like any other character; they take up 1 character.
+Combining characters are considered as separate characters.
+If an output delimiter is specified, (see the description of
 @option{--output-delimiter}), then output that string between ranges
 of selected characters.