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Re: pr considers bytes not presentation width
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Eric Blake |
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Re: pr considers bytes not presentation width |
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Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:28:11 -0700 |
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According to Dan Jacobson on 12/25/2006 8:58 AM:
> Double width characters don't line up with pr or pr|expand.
> LC_ALL doesn't change things. Perhaps it is counting Unicode as bytes,
> perhaps it is thinking every character is one column wide.
Indeed, as has been mentioned to you before, coreutils does not yet have
good multibyte character support. This is just another instance of that
more general problem.
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