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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.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 18:42:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egnzj156.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iv4lhi8m08h.fsf@lumpy-gravy.uio.no> (Gunnar Horrigmo's message of "Sat, 04 Apr 2015 16:33:50 +0200")

Gunnar Horrigmo <gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no> writes:

> 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."

This is a limitation of the underlying strftime, which operates on
bytes, not characters.  This could be fixed by using wcsftime instead.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-04 16:42 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 [this message]
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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