Package: bash Version: 3.1dfsg-8 Severity: normal The bash builtin command "printf" is not UTF-8 aware (i.e. does not handle UTF-8 multibyte characters). Example:
$ /bin/bash -c 'type printf' printf is a shell builtin $ /bin/bash -c 'printf "!%5s!\n" a ä' ! a! ! ä! "a" is "U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A" (UTF-8: 0x61) "ä" is "U+00E4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS" (UTF-8: 0xc3a4) The problem is that the field width "%5s" is calculated wrong because the letter "ä" takes two bytes in UTF-8 but is only one character. It displays correctly because the terminal is UTF-8 aware. (By the way, /usr/bin/printf [in coreutils] has the same bug.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 4 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand bash recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
