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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:13:59 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:41:23 +0200
> 
> On Sep 30 2019, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > I think this should be raised as a bug to glibc developers, as their
> > documentation says "characters", according to my reading.
> 
> The POSIX descriptions says bytes.

Right.  So it might be a glibc documentation bug (or maybe the glibc
manual I have here is outdated).

And there is the issue with non-glibc implementations.

Thanks.