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ls alignment bug

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From: Seth Kushniryk <sethkushniryk <at> linux.com>
To: 23191 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23191: ls alignment bug
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:01:26 -0700

I forgot to mention that this is coreutils 8.21 in Slackware

On 01-Apr-16 19:53, Seth Kushniryk wrote:
> Hi, I've been having a minor issue with ls. It seems that sometimes the
> character 'é' (e accent aigu) causes the rest of the listing to be
> misaligned. My options are "-F -T 0".
> 
> Here is an example of me using it in my music library:
> 
> First Aid Kit/              Pink Floyd/                The Who/
> Fleetwood Mac/              Queen/                     Ton Koopman/
> Foreigner/                  Rage Against The Machine/  Trooper/
> Frank Sinatra/              Red Rider/                 U2/
> Félix Leclerc/             Rodriguez/                 Van Morrison/
> George Harrison/            Roy Orbison/               Whitesnake/
> Green Day/                  Run-DMC/                   Woody Guthrie/
> Iron Butterfly/             Rush/
> James/                      Simon and Garfunkel/
> 
> Renaming the directory to "Felix Leclerc" fixes the issue. I think the
> problem is in "ls.c" in the function "quote_name", and what it sets for
> "size_t *width".
> 

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