Re: printf doesn't work properly for non-ASCII
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:35:07PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I decided to try how partman works with localised strings and observed
> that some of the strings almost overlap on the screen. Investigation
> showed that this was caused by printf.
>
> In several places in the code of partman are used commands like
>
> printf "(%5s)\n" $var
>
> The problem is that printf considers the length of the strings in
> bytes as length in symbols which is not true for UTF-8.
This is a feature, not a bug ;)
If you want to print aligned data, you should be aware that not all
characters fit on a cell, some are 0 or 2 column wide; see strwidth
function in cdebconf/src/strutl.c or libtextwrap1.
I do not know if a program exists to do what you want from a shell.
Denis
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