However, it appears that glibc's printf
code interprets the parameter as the number of *characters* to print,
and to determine what's a character it assumes the string is in the
environment LC_CTYPE's encoding.
Well, I myself have problems to believe that :-)
This would be nasty... Are you sure?
I couldn reproduce that.
I made a quick test, passing a utf-8 encoded string
(5 bytes correspoding to 4 unicode chars: "niño")
And my glib (same Fedora 12) seems to count bytes,
as it should.
#include<stdio.h>
main () {
char s[] = "ni\xc3\xb1o";
printf("|%.*s|\n",5,s);
}
This, compiled with gcc 4.4.3, run with my root locale (utf8)
did not padded a blank. ie it worked as expected.
Hernán
