On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:35:07PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Hi! > > I decided to try how partman works with localised strings and observed > that some of the strings almost overlap on the screen. Investigation > showed that this was caused by printf. > > In several places in the code of partman are used commands like > > printf "(%5s)\n" $var > > The problem is that printf considers the length of the strings in > bytes as length in symbols which is not true for UTF-8. For example > if var='ÐÑ' (two Cyrillic letters) then the quoted printf command will > output "( ÐÑ)" instead of "( ÐÑ)". For Asian languages the > situation can be even worse because there 3 or 4 bytes represent only > one character. > > All versions of printf I tested are broken -- the internal printf > command in bash, /usr/bin/printf and busybox. Does someone know how > this can be fixed? > Using of wide character functions may help but this will require rewrite of all code that works with localized strings.
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