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Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X |
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Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:13:02 -0700 |
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According to Vincent Lefevre on 1/15/2007 8:05 PM:
> Hi,
>
> Under Mac OS X 10.4.8 with ls (GNU coreutils) 5.97 (installed via
> MacPorts), in a 80-column terminal (uxterm), I get:
>
> $ ls
> É y123456789012345678901234567890
> x123456789012345678901234567890 z123456789012345678901234567890
This is yet another symptom of a much larger issue - namely, coreutils
does not handle multi-byte locales well. The problem is that no one has
yet written a patch that makes it easy to handle multibyte locales without
penalizing single-byte locales.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/17
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Vincent Lefevre, 2007/01/17
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/18
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Jim Meyering, 2007/01/18
- Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X, Bruno Haible, 2007/01/18