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multibyte: stat's %[X] counts bytes instead of characters

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Errembault Philippe <camion_spam-debrpbg <at> yahoo.fr>, 14456 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14456: Stat I18N problem with the format string.
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 14:46:40 -0600

severity 14456 wishlist
retitle 14456 multibyte: stat's %[X] counts bytes instead of characters
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Hello,

On 20/10/18 12:40 PM, Errembault Philippe wrote:
> This has absolutely nothing to do with a translation problem. It is 
> related with the I18N string processing.
> As you can see, the line with the word «répertoire» is one character 
> shorter because the «é» occupies 2 bytes in UTF-8.

Thanks for persisting - it is indeed a bug
and not a translation issue.
(also similar to https://bugs.gnu.org/17196).

-assaf

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