From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 20258@debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <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 15:39:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sq5ewe4.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k19qcfjc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:13:59 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> The POSIX descriptions says bytes.
>
> Right. So it might be a glibc documentation bug (or maybe the glibc
> manual I have here is outdated).
>
> And there is the issue with non-glibc implementations.
What about something appropriately vague like the following patch to
draw attention to the issue:
diff --git a/src/timefns.c b/src/timefns.c
index 330d5623f0..20f7ccb7d7 100644
--- a/src/timefns.c
+++ b/src/timefns.c
@@ -1437,8 +1437,11 @@ DEFUN ("format-time-string", Fformat_time_string, Sformat_time_string, 1, 3, 0,
`^' Use upper case characters if possible.
`#' Use opposite case characters if possible.
-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
+depends on the locale what the width (in characters) %NX will end up
+being.
The modifiers are:
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-30 13:39 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 [this message]
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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