Glenn, it may be helpful to document %Ls and %Lc in the printf(1)
built in manual page.

Olga

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:22:49 +0100 =?KOI8-R?B?z8zYx8Egy9LZ1sHOz9fTy8HR?= 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Oliver Kiddle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Thanks for fixing the previous issues.
>> > I still get one complaint from the Debian lintian tool for the ksh man
>> > page. For line 7, it complains that the xx macro is undefined.
>> >
>> > If you're interested, Debian bug reports are at
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ksh
>> > The proper procedure is for me to verify them and forward them but I've
>> > not been able to reproduce them. That is except for the one complaining
>> > that printf treating field widths as characters instead of bytes as
>> > prescribed by POSIX. My own opinion is that treating them as characters
>> > is much more useful and it'd be a pity to "fix" it to use bytes.
>
>> AFAIK you can use %Ls instead of %s if you want characters instead of bytes.
>
> yes, and %Lc for single characters




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