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

To: Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>
Cc: 463913@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#463913: lintian: Miscounts line length when unicode characters are involved
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:54:27 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 87sl09tgfg.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Reply-to: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 463913@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20080204054716.3791.20023.reportbug@caesar.andrew.net.au> (Andrew Pollock's message of "Sun\, 03 Feb 2008 21\:47\:16 -0800")
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Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.42
> Severity: normal
>
> 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.

Yup, it was indeed.  Will be fixed in the next release.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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  - From: Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org>

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