On Monday 26 January 2009 12:58:06 Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> As far as I can see, printf is not calculating strings lengths correctly
> when using utf-8 encoding. Either that, or I'm using byte count, and
> can't find the character count :-/
>
> Eg:
>
> $ printf "|%-10s|" "æøå"
>
> |æøå |
>
> $ printf "|%-10s|" "123"
>
> |123 |
>
> I'm on 7.1-p2
Does this work on an xterm (or anything else then the FreeBSD console) with
correct LANG variable set?
The FreeBSD console does not work with utf-8 (yet), allthough I would not
think it should affect printf's character counting, still.....it haunts me.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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