GNU bug report logs - #20258
24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gunnar Horrigmo <gunnar.horrigmo <at> usit.uio.no>

Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 15:36:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 20258 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, gunnar.horrigmo <at> usit.uio.no
Subject: bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:13:59 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,  20258 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  stefan <at> marxist.se,  gunnar.horrigmo <at> usit.uio.no
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:41:23 +0200
> 
> On Sep 30 2019, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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manual I have here is outdated).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.
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