Bug#463913: lintian: Miscounts line length when unicode characters are involved

[Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.42
Severity: normal

Hi,

As best I can determine, Lintian was complaining about a changelog line
being too long, when it was 77 characters long, but it contained three
unicode characters in it. I'm guessing it was counting the unicode
characters as two characters each.

regards

Andrew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.17-3            The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.43-2            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.13.25           package building tools for Debian
ii  file                   4.17-5etch3       Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.16.1-1          GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1             parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db                 2.4.3-6           The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7etch1      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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