found 480774 2.8.7-0.2 thanks Also, if I replace the à by a € (euro symbol, which takes 3 bytes instead of 2 for à), I also get 3 spaces under UTF-8 locales. So, it seems that the encoding length doesn't matter.
And if I also replace the 'b' by a 'è', then the pipe character no longer appears in the output! -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]