On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 08:58:41PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Christos Zoulas wrote: > >Modified Files: > > src/usr.bin/vis: vis.c > > > >More fixes from J.R. Oldroyd: > > >- In the call to strvisx() the count must be 1, not mbilen > > which can be 2 or 3 etc for a multibyte character. This > > value is a count of characters - not bytes - to process. > > It even says characters in the man page. In vis(3) I > > am interpreting this value to mean multibyte characters. > > In general, the caller of str[n]vis[x] knows how many bytes of data > they have, but they do not know how many multibyte characters that > might represent. If the man page talks about characters, that's > because it was written at a time when vis did not attempt to deal > with multibyte characters. I think that we should revert to the > original semantics of lengths being measured in bytes, and adjust > both the man pages and callers appropriately.
concur -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
