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Re: printf %s in UTF-8 is not POSIX-compliant

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: printf %s in UTF-8 is not POSIX-compliant
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 02:37:17 +0100
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I mixed up the field width and the precision, but there's the same
problem:

vin% emulate sh
vin% printf ".%.2s.\n" éabc      
.éa.
vin% /usr/bin/printf ".%.2s.\n" éabc
.é.
vin%

and POSIX says:

  field width
    An optional string of decimal digits to specify a minimum field
    width. For an output field, if the converted value has fewer
    bytes than the field width, [...]
    ^^^^^

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- printf %s in UTF-8 is not POSIX-compliant
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