From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:58:49 +0300 Message-ID: <834l0tdgx2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87blv2a3aj.fsf@gnus.org> <83d0fie08y.fsf@gnu.org> <83k19qcfjc.fsf@gnu.org> <878sq5ewe4.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="7126"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 20258@debbugs.gnu.org, schwab@suse.de, stefan@marxist.se, gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 30 16:00:40 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwEB-0001jm-Od for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:00:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52868 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwEA-0005lH-A8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwDh-0005WC-5P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwDd-0007Gi-8J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51152) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwDb-0007F2-KY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwDa-0002sD-Ff for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:00:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:00:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20258 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 20258-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20258.156985194410957 (code B ref 20258); Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20258) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Sep 2019 13:59:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59973 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwCZ-0002qK-AG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40625) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwCX-0002q5-Bc for 20258@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:58:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwCR-0006o1-Jy; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:58:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4556 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iEwCQ-0007nY-Jl; Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:58:51 -0400 In-reply-to: <878sq5ewe4.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:39:15 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:167881 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Andreas Schwab , 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.