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

[Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes]

Is there any complaint to use wide characters functions? Like
wcswidth, wcslen and fwide functions?

Regards,
Rodolfo

2010/1/15 Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>:
> 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.
>