On 2024-04-12 Bruno Haible wrote:
> How to reproduce:
> 1. Build GNU tar (1.33 or 1.35, for example).
> 2. Install it.
> 3. You can see misindentation:
> $ LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 src/tar --help
>
> ...
> abzubilden
> --mode=ÄNDERUNGEN den (symbolischen) Modus ÄND
Hi Bruno,
On 4/12/24 10:19 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> So, my feeling would be that the first thing to do is to create a new
> unit test for it:
> 1. so that we don't need to build and try GNU tar in order to see
> whether there is a regression in the future,
> 2. so as to cover the tricky
Hi Collin,
> This patch fixes the two examples that you gave. I think it may be
> missing the case where the buffer doesn't end in a partial line
> though.
There are probably some other cases that are not handled either.
The code is ca. 200 lines of considerations of columns and widths
here and t
Hi Bruno,
On 4/11/24 4:23 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> The bug is apparently that in argp-fmtstream.c, a character such as Ä or É
> augments fs->point_col by 2, when it should only augment it by 1.
>
> In other words, it should use the Gnulib module 'mbswidth'.
>
> Any volunteers?
I am very unfami
Reported by Lasse Collin:
The argp module from Gnulib has a rendering problem in the --help output
of the program. Namely, it counts bytes when it should count screen columns.
How to reproduce:
1. Build GNU tar (1.33 or 1.35, for example).
2. Install it.
3. You can see misindentation:
$ LC_ALL=de_
