Re: who is not wide-character aware

[Eric Blake]

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According to address@hidden on 5/8/2007 4:41 PM:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on Czech translation for coreutils. I've found out that if I use
> UTF-8 locale and I translate the headers using wide characters, then the
> heading of who command (who -H) will be badly aligned. And even some headers
> can disappear.
> 
> I noticed this bug in coreutils-6.9 in locale cs_CZ.UTF-8 and messeages in
> Czech PO catalogue like:
> 
> #: src/who.c:551
> msgid "TIME"
> msgstr "ČAS"
> 
> Headers following header _("TIME") are shifted to left. More wide characters
> in traslatation shift the headers more left and after excedening a number of
> them some headers are not visible.
> 
> It seems that print_line() in src/who.c counts bytes instead of characters.

Thanks for the report.  This is yet another instance of the more general
bug that coreutils is not wide-character aware.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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