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bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20258: 24.5; format-time-string miscounting of multibyte characters |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:42:13 +0300 |
> From: Gunnar Horrigmo <gunnar.horrigmo@usit.uio.no>
> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 16:33:50 +0200
>
>
> As the subject says, format-time-string miscounts multibyte characters.
> Simple example with nb_NO.utf8 locale, where ø is two bytes:
>
> (format-time-string "%6a" (date-to-time "Sat Apr 4 16:14:40 2015"))
> " lø."
>
> (length (format-time-string "%6a" (date-to-time "Sat Apr 4 16:14:40 2015")))
> 5
'length' counts characters, not bytes. If you need to count bytes,
use 'string-bytes' instead:
(string-bytes " lø.") => 6