[Popcon-developers] Bug#333597: http://popcon.debian.org/maint/by_inst

[allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr (Bill Allombert)]

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:19:38PM +0200, G?rkan Seng?n wrote:
> >> There is a problem with the statistics of popcon.debian.org:
> >> 
> >> http://www.linuks.mine.nu/people/links2/render.png
> >> it was just generated with a tool
> >> that assumes that one byte is one character.
> > 
> > You are absolutly correct!
> > 
> >> Can that be fixed?
> > 
> > Yes, but I am not sure what is the best way yet.
> > It seems I should use wcswidth.
> > 
> > Could you report it as a bug ?
> 
> sure, i didn't find a better place (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages)
> to report it to, feel free to reassign.

Hello G?rkan,

I fixed this problem by using perl UTF-8 I/O so length() returns the number
of characters not bytes. 

This bug is fixed on the popcon server and in the CVS repository.  It
will be closed when the package will be uploaded.

Thanks for noticing this glitch,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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