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

[Pádraig Brady]

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.