On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:39 AM, L A Walsh <b...@tlinx.org> wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote: > >> On 3/4/17 12:53 AM, Misaki wrote >> >>> Full-width character, followed by at least one full word with a space >>> after it. >>> >>> Example: あa a >>> With trailing space. >>> >>> >> >> This is a display artifact. If there is one physical space left on the >> screen line, but the character to be printed occupies more than one space, >> bash needs to wrap before the end of the screen line, and it needs to >> keep track of that. >> > [...] > But try this: > > > echo 'あa a '|wc -m > 6 > > There should only be 5 characters. > > If I cut/paste her text (in quotes) directly into 'wc -m' (so it > doesn't go through bash, but is taken directly from 'wc' on its > stdin), then I get '7' (2 extra chars for the quotes): > > wc -m >> > 'あa a '7 > ^^ pressed Ctl-D twice to not end line w/another char (like LF). > > Maybe that examples allows you to duplicate the problem? > > > Am I mistaken in thinking that this is the trailing newline from echo, and that without it the results are consistent?
