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bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters |
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Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:42:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Gunnar Horrigmo <gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no> writes:
> As the subject says, format-time-string miscounts multibyte characters.
> Simple example with nb_NO.utf8 locale, where ø is two bytes:
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> (format-time-string "%6a" (date-to-time "Sat Apr 4 16:14:40 2015"))
> " lø."
This is a limitation of the underlying strftime, which operates on
bytes, not characters. This could be fixed by using wcsftime instead.
Andreas.
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