The patch attached is an incomplete solution and so is the one in the Debian bug report, however it might be worth including in package as it fixes part of the problem.
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #254557 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254557 ** Also affects: cowsay (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254557 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: cowsay (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- cowsay miscalculates length of multibyte-UTF-8-characters https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393212 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs