Bernd Eggink wrote:
Select lists are sometimes displayed with incorrect vertical alignment
if an item contains one or more German umlauts. Examples:
select x in äöü blah{1..20}; do :; done # wrong
select x in amöbe blah{1..20}; do :; done # wrong
select x in amöb blah{1..20}; do :; done # wrong
select x in amö blah{1..20}; do :; done # OK
Bash version is 4.1.7(1)-release, LANG is de_DE.UTF-8.
Bernd
It's long ago I since inspected the select code, but I think it's
because it counts bytes for the space calculations. The last one
succeeds because there's a minimum width reached.
J.
