Re: Misalignment of pinky output: lack of support of multibyte char

[Jim Meyering]

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.