Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: cowsay
Ubuntu 9.04
cowsay 3.03
When piping text containing multibyte-characters to cowsay (echo "äöü" |
cowsay), cowsay calculates line length based on the char* size, not the
UTF-8-string size, resulting in this:
$ echo "ää" | cowsay
______
< ää >
------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
$ echo "aa" | cowsay
____
< aa >
----
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
Note that the top bubble's size is off by 2 characters.
The length of lines must be determined using UTF-8 functions, not basic
array functions to determine the screen real estate used.
** Affects: cowsay (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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cowsay miscalculates length of multibyte-UTF-8-characters
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393212
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