Current stable version has a problem: when you send the output of parallel to a file and that output contains "special characters", the UTF8 encoding of that file is all messed up. Updating to this version fixes the issue Thanks
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a07497d3b587e54bbfbc5f69afe4a274bb4db10c commit a07497d3b587e54bbfbc5f69afe4a274bb4db10c Author: Tim Harder <radhermit@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-12-22 19:37:31 +0000 Commit: Tim Harder <radhermit@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-12-22 19:38:42 +0000 sys-process/parallel: stabilize 20181122 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/673182 Signed-off-by: Tim Harder <radhermit@gentoo.org> sys-process/parallel/parallel-20181122.ebuild | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)