From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gunnar Horrigmo <gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no>
Cc: 20258@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:42:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r3rzoq7e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iv4lhi8m08h.fsf@lumpy-gravy.uio.no>
> From: Gunnar Horrigmo <gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no>
> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 16:33:50 +0200
>
>
> As the subject says, format-time-string miscounts multibyte characters.
> Simple example with nb_NO.utf8 locale, where ø is two bytes:
>
> (format-time-string "%6a" (date-to-time "Sat Apr 4 16:14:40 2015"))
> " lø."
>
> (length (format-time-string "%6a" (date-to-time "Sat Apr 4 16:14:40 2015")))
> 5
'length' counts characters, not bytes. If you need to count bytes,
use 'string-bytes' instead:
(string-bytes " lø.") => 6
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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 [this message]
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
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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