Package: xterm
Version: 229-1
Severity: normal
In an 80 column xterm, run this command:
perl -e 'print "LABEL=kodama-root /\t\text3\tnoatime,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro 00\t1\n"'
The output is displayed like this:
LABEL=kodama-root / ext3 noatime,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro 001
Notice that is not what we asked perl to print, There should be a tab between
the ending "00" and "1". Switch to a wider xterm, and run it again, and see:
LABEL=kodama-root / ext3 noatime,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro 00 1
Of course, this can also be reproduced at other xterm widths. The \t just
needs to be the last character displayed before the line should wrap.
So a more general command to show the display glitch is:
perl -e 'print ("x" x (shift()-1)); print "\tX\n"' $COLUMNS
If it matters, my xterm is configured to use unicode, and I've attached
xrdb-query output.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.4 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.6+20071013-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii xutils 1:7.3+2 X Window System utility programs m
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