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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>
Cc: 17196 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, chet.ramey <at> case.edu, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, Rich Felker <dalias <at> aerifal.cx>, 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: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:25:11 -0400

On 4/11/14, 6:16 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Chet Ramey <chet.ramey <at> case.edu> wrote:
>  |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!
> 
> I see you really would love to get a hand from POSIX too:

I'm sorry, I realize that was rather obscure.  It's from "1984", by George
Orwell.  It's a central theme to the book.  The quote was an attempt to
inject levity into the discussion.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet <at> case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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