GNU bug report logs - #7372
multibyte: fmt and multi-byte encodings

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Package: coreutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Ineiev <ineiev@HIDDEN>; dated Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:42:03 UTC; Maintainer for coreutils is bug-coreutils@HIDDEN.
Changed bug title to 'multibyte: fmt and multi-byte encodings' from 'fmt and multi-byte encodings' Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.

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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:13:20AM +0400, Ineiev wrote:
> On 11/11/10, P=E1draig Brady <P@HIDDEN> wrote:
> > We're starting to apply multi-byte support,
> > so hopefully this will be fixed soon.
>=20
> Could you provide a link?
>=20
> > $ echo "1 2 =E6 4 5 6" | fmt -w6
> > 1 2
> > =E6 4
> > 5 6
>=20
> While should be
> 1 2 =E6
> 4 5 6
>=20
> > That is with the official fedora
> > version of `fmt`
>=20
> I can confirm that fmt from official GNU coreutils-8.6 does the same.

The same with coreutils 6.10 on debian Lenny:

$ echo "1 2 3 4 5 6" | fmt -w6
1 2 3
4 5 6
$ echo "1 2 =FC 4 5 6" | fmt -w6
1 2
=FC 4
5 6
$ fmt --version
fmt (GNU coreutils) 6.10
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Ross Paterson.
$

(Just as a reference.)

Erik
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On 11/11/10, P=E1draig Brady <P@HIDDEN> wrote:
> We're starting to apply multi-byte support,
> so hopefully this will be fixed soon.

Could you provide a link?

> $ echo "1 2 =E6 4 5 6" | fmt -w6
> 1 2
> =E6 4
> 5 6

While should be
1 2 =E6
4 5 6

> That is with the official fedora
> version of `fmt`

I can confirm that fmt from official GNU coreutils-8.6 does the same.

Thanks,
Ineiev




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On 11/11/10 09:32, Ineiev wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> Today I fed a text in Russian in UTF-8 to fmt
> and discovered that the utility counts the line width
> in bytes rather than in characters (the lines written in
> Cyrillics were roughly twice as short as the lines
> written in Latin script), which was not what I wanted.
> I checked fmt from coreutils-8.6.
> 
> As a workaround, I could iconv the text into a single-byte
> encoding like KOI8-R, but I would limit the character
> set then.
> 
> I've never used fmt before personally, so actually I'm not
> sure whether it was a bug or I did something wrong.
> 
> Any hints?

We're starting to apply multi-byte support,
so hopefully this will be fixed soon.

$ echo "1 2 ĉ 4 5 6" | fmt -w6
1 2
ĉ 4
5 6

That is with the official fedora
version of `fmt`

cheers,
Pádraig





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Hello;

Today I fed a text in Russian in UTF-8 to fmt
and discovered that the utility counts the line width
in bytes rather than in characters (the lines written in
Cyrillics were roughly twice as short as the lines
written in Latin script), which was not what I wanted.
I checked fmt from coreutils-8.6.

As a workaround, I could iconv the text into a single-byte
encoding like KOI8-R, but I would limit the character
set then.

I've never used fmt before personally, so actually I'm not
sure whether it was a bug or I did something wrong.

Any hints?




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