On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:35:07PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > 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.
This is a feature, not a bug ;) If you want to print aligned data, you should be aware that not all characters fit on a cell, some are 0 or 2 column wide; see strwidth function in cdebconf/src/strutl.c or libtextwrap1. I do not know if a program exists to do what you want from a shell. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
