Followup-For: Bug #313411
Package: gawk
I tried to test this, and it seems that at this moment, this behavior is only
seen
when using the C locale. I got:
$ cat example.txt | LC_ALL=C awk '{ printf "%-5s%s\n",$1, $2 }'
A Only_a_singlebyte_character_here_(UTF-8:_41)
Ö A_letter_which_takes_two_bytes_(UTF-8:_c3_96)
€ A_currency_symbol_which_takes_three_bytes_(UTF-8:_e2_82_ac)
$ cat example.txt | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 awk '{ printf "%-5s%s\n",$1, $2 }'
A Only_a_singlebyte_character_here_(UTF-8:_41)
Ö A_letter_which_takes_two_bytes_(UTF-8:_c3_96)
€ A_currency_symbol_which_takes_three_bytes_(UTF-8:_e2_82_ac)
It therefore seems to me that the current behavior is valid, and to be expected.
Regards,
Rogier.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers squeeze-updates
APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gawk depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
gawk recommends no packages.
gawk suggests no packages.
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