2009/3/20 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> It specifically states that results are unspecified for
>> other things, like %b, where there could be more bytes than screen
>> columns. Which means we should be free to interpret things in the way
>> that makes the most sense, by interpreting %5b as five screen columns
>> rather than 5 bytes.
>
> I wish you could convince the glibc maintainers to implement strftime
> this way. But I don't give it much chances, because it would be a change
> away from current glibc behaviour, and current glibc behaviour coincides
> with the POSIX wording ("bytes").
>
Who is voluntary to ask for this change on the glibc list?
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