Is there any complaint to use wide characters functions? Like wcswidth, wcslen and fwide functions?
Regards, Rodolfo 2010/1/15 Pádraig Brady <[email protected]>: > On 15/01/10 11:28, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes wrote: >>> >>> Hello. I was translating coreutils 8.3 and testing it when I saw that >>> the pinky output was not fine: >>> $ pinky >>> Usuário Nome TTY Ocioso Quando Onde >>> rodolfo Rodolfo Ribeiro Gom tty7 03:07 2010-01-14 18:03 :0 >>> >>> So I tried to see it on english, and it is ok: >>> >>> $ LC_ALL=en pinky >>> Login Name TTY Idle When Where >>> rodolfo Rodolfo Ribeiro Gom tty7 03:10 Jan 14 18:03 :0 >>> >>> I changed the char á from my string as I use UTF-8, and it becomes ok, >>> but not with a correct spell: >>> >>> $ pinky >>> Usuario Nome TTY Ocioso Quando Onde >>> rodolfo Rodolfo Ribeiro Gom tty7 03:10 2010-01-14 18:03 :0 >> >> Thanks for the report. >> There are a few programs like this, including df and who. >> No one has been motivated to work on the general problem, >> but we would welcome patches. > > Note there is mbsalign() functionality now in ls > which could be used for this. I'll have a look at some stage. > > cheers, > Pádraig. >
