Hello, On Wednesday 18 January 2006 13:58, you wrote: > I have not been able to find any program that does UTF-8 multibyte > character left and right justification for text files.
I have not either, sorry. > If you can > point me to some source where I can find information on how this can > be handled then perhaps I can try to figure out a patch to fix this. I'm not a programmer but I guess one just have to understand how UTF-8 encoding works. "The old way" was to count strings byte by byte but it's not working anymore with UTF-8. Probably manual page UTF-8(7) is a good start and of course there are Unicode Consortium's official definitions: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch03.pdf > According to the release notes "par" is OK with 8-bit characters but > not multibyte so this is not a bug in the program vis-a-vis its > documentation. Would it be OK with you if this bug was downgraded to > wishlist? I don't mind moving it to the wishlist. I don't use "par" anymore - I can't. But, this is kind of becoming a bug because Linux distributions have moved towards UTF-8 locale and there aren't many languages that can be written with ascii codes 0 - $7f. In Unicode's UTF-8 encoding all the other codes ($80 - $10ffff) need 2 to 4 bytes. So, as "par" is mainly for reformatting text with human languages, it has become pretty useless nowadays as Unicode and UTF-8 has come. > Thanks and regards, Thank you too. A UTF-8 patch would be really nice. - TL
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