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multibyte: printf: %s counts bytes instead of characters

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From: Jan Novak <jn <at> turbo.sk>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: UTF-8 printf string formating  problem
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 01:17:19 +0200

Hello,

printf string format counts bytes instead of chars, which leads to broken output ...
(the same problem occurs with bash built in printf)


just try this:

$ echo $LANG
us_US.UTF-8


$ printf "|%3s|\n" "a"
|  a|

$ printf "|%3s|\n" "á"     (char is a-acute)
| á|

expected output:
|  á|

Is there some easy solution ?

TIA for the answer


Best regards
Novak

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