Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>   - Apple Terminal is the default/normal terminal emulator on MacOS X,
>   - networking/pipe speed are not critical nowadays (in the times of
>     internet radio and streaming video),
>   - the bug was tricky enough to analyze, that an average user couldn't do
>     it by himself,

All true, but there are a couple of other factors.  First, the bug
will bite programs other than 'ls'.  Second, the misbehavior is a
small one and doesn't really hurt anything.  It's almost ideally
small: just large enough to be noticeable so that Apple might actually
fix the bug, but not so large that people can't get their work done.

Long ago I regularly used terminal emulators that mishandled tabs.
Eventually they got fixed (or I stopped using them....).