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.

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