cut() does not handle unicode properly

[Ron Johnson]

Hi,

$ echo 哈哈
哈哈

$ echo 哈哈 | cut -c 2-
��哈

Apparently, Red Hat patched this in or before FC15.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15961/coreutils-that-are-utf-aware
[patches@holocene ~]$ rpm -q coreutils
coreutils-8.10-2.fc15.x86_64
[patches@holocene ~]$ echo 哈哈 | cut -c 2-
哈

The patch is here: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/coreutils-i18n.patch?id=6e10f376996b64f538259091a524df2249b653fb;id2=HEAD

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: coreutils 8.21-1ubuntu5.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-generic 3.13.11-ckt12
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Jan 24 10:06:25 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-22 (611 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
SourcePackage: coreutils
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-01-04 (19 days ago)