Subject: Re: bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:42:29 +0200

Gunnar Horrigmo <[email-masked]> writes:

> As the subject says, format-time-string miscounts multibyte characters.
> Simple example with nb_NO.utf8 locale, where ø is two bytes:
>
> (format-time-string "%6a" (date-to-time "Sat Apr  4 16:14:40 2015"))
> "  lø."

This is a limitation of the underlying strftime, which operates on
bytes, not characters.  This could be fixed by using wcsftime instead.

Andreas.

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