bug#17196: UTF-8 printf string formating problem

[Jan Novak]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Pity there is no consensus here.
> Personally I would go for:
>    printf '%3s' 'blah'  # count cells
>    printf '%3Ls' 'blah' # count chars
>    LANG=C '%3Ls' 'blah' # count bytes
>    LANG=C '%3s' 'blah'  # count bytes

I vote for it ...
it is excellent idea, that "standard" notation works properly in localized 
environment !
(because this is exactly what users expect)

Thanks !
novak