On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 05:37:15PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Notes: > > The character appears in the subject of this mail, so that you can > use it as a test case. :) > > The problem doesn't appear with a shell and printf. Thus I assume that > it may be related to margins and things like that. Attaching a script, for discussion. I don't see the problem, but noticed that the character is "new", and for instance if you were running xterm remotely so that the wcwidth wasn't known then you could get odd results. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode 'encode_utf8';
binmode( STDOUT, ":utf8" );
my $margin = `tput cols`;
my $length = $margin - 8;
for my $n ( 1 .. 10 ) {
for my $m ( 1 .. $length ) {
printf '.';
}
printf "{{%s}}\n", chr(0x1f378);
$length++;
}
printf 'DONE!\n'
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