Hi! I decided to try how partman works with localised strings and observed that some of the strings almost overlap on the screen. Investigation showed that this was caused by printf.
In several places in the code of partman are used commands like printf "(%5s)\n" $var The problem is that printf considers the length of the strings in bytes as length in symbols which is not true for UTF-8. For example if var='пя' (two Cyrillic letters) then the quoted printf command will output "( пя)" instead of "( пя)". For Asian languages the situation can be even worse because there 3 or 4 bytes represent only one character. All versions of printf I tested are broken -- the internal printf command in bash, /usr/bin/printf and busybox. Does someone know how this can be fixed? Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
