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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 20258@debbugs.gnu.org, schwab@suse.de, stefan@marxist.se,
	gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no
Subject: bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:58:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834l0tdgx2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sq5ewe4.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon,  30 Sep 2019 15:39:15 +0200)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,  20258@debbugs.gnu.org,
>   stefan@marxist.se,  gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:39:15 +0200
> 
> -A field width N is an unsigned decimal integer with a leading digit nonzero.
> -%NX is like %X, but takes up at least N positions.
> +A field width N is an unsigned decimal integer with a leading digit
> +nonzero.  %NX is like %X, but takes up at least N positions.  The
> +field width is (on most systems) in bytes, not characters, so it

"is measured in bytes".  Also, I'd say "on GNU/Linux and some other
systems", which is marginally more accurate.

> +depends on the locale what the width (in characters) %NX will end up
> +being.

I would mention "non-ASCII characters" here in some way, not just the
locale, to make this more explicit.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-30 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-04 14:33 bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters Gunnar Horrigmo
2015-04-04 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-04 16:03   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-04 16:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-30  0:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-30  3:09   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30  7:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30  8:41       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-30  9:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 13:39           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 13:58             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-30 14:12               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 14:30                 ` Gunnar Horrigmo
2019-09-30 14:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 14:41                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 14:48                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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