Re: [dev] [PATCH] [sbase] Use utflen in cols(1)

From: Robert Ransom <rransom.8774_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 14:18:03 -0800

On 12/5/14, Brandon Mulcahy <brandon_AT_jangler.info> wrote:
> ---
> cols.1 | 3 +--
> cols.c | 14 +++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/cols.1 b/cols.1
> index 8f15cb3..5383e47 100644
> --- a/cols.1
> +++ b/cols.1
> _AT_@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ This implementation of
> .B cols
> assumes that every byte is a character
> which takes up one column on the screen.
> -It does not handle non-ASCII UTF-8 runes
> -or TAB characters correctly.
> +It does not handle TAB characters correctly.

utflen returns the number of runes in a string, not the number of
character cells that will be used to display it on a terminal.


Robert Ransom
Received on Fri Dec 05 2014 - 23:18:03 CET