unarchive 23191 tag 23191 notabug close 23191 stop On 02/04/16 04:01, Seth Kushniryk wrote: > I forgot to mention that this is coreutils 8.21 in Slackware > > On 01-Apr-16 19:53, Seth Kushniryk wrote: >> Hi, I've been having a minor issue with ls. It seems that sometimes the >> character 'é' (e accent aigu) causes the rest of the listing to be >> misaligned. My options are "-F -T 0". >> >> Here is an example of me using it in my music library: >> >> First Aid Kit/ Pink Floyd/ The Who/ >> Fleetwood Mac/ Queen/ Ton Koopman/ >> Foreigner/ Rage Against The Machine/ Trooper/ >> Frank Sinatra/ Red Rider/ U2/ >> Félix Leclerc/ Rodriguez/ Van Morrison/ >> George Harrison/ Roy Orbison/ Whitesnake/ >> Green Day/ Run-DMC/ Woody Guthrie/ >> Iron Butterfly/ Rush/ >> James/ Simon and Garfunkel/ >> >> Renaming the directory to "Felix Leclerc" fixes the issue. I think the >> problem is in "ls.c" in the function "quote_name", and what it sets for >> "size_t *width".
I think the problem is your locale settings. It looks like the file is on disk in UTF-8 (where é takes 2 bytes), while ls(1) is running in a single byte locale such as en_US. In that mode those bytes are interpreted by ls(1) as separate printable characters, resulting in the misalignment. The -T0 uses spaces rather than tabs for alignment making the issue more likely to hit. The fix would be to set your locale to en_US.utf8 or equivalent. thanks, Pádraig
