Hi! This bug is a show-stopper whenever one wants to set a field width with the %s format specifier. It has been reported quite some time ago and I cannot see any activity. Can this bug at least be forwarded upstream, please?
BTW, I experienced this bug while trying to center lines of text inside an 80-column container: $ echo 'hello world' | awk '{ w = int((80 + length())/2); printf "%" w "s\n", $0; }' hello world $ echo 'hèllo wörld' | awk '{ w = int((80 + length())/2); printf "%" w "s\n", $0; }' hèllo wörld Do you happen to know of a command-line tool that can read text lines from stdin and write them centered to stdout? Thanks for any help. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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