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multibyte: printf: %s counts bytes instead of characters

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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey <at> case.edu>
To: Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden <at> yandex.com>, Rich Felker <dalias <at> aerifal.cx>
Cc: 17196 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, chet.ramey <at> case.edu, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>, Jan Novak <jn <at> turbo.sk>, Austin Group <austin-group-l <at> opengroup.org>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: bug#17196: UTF-8 printf string formating  problem
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:10:26 -0400

On 4/10/14, 12:16 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:

> Even better would nonetheless be the great picture with
> a termios(4) IUTF8 flag, some extended xywidth(3) that returns
> a tuple of {[EastAsianWidth indication,] is-combining,
> width-if-non-combining} and best even some composition function.

But we have always been at war with EastAsia!

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