Re: sh emulation POSIX non-conformances (printf %10s and bytes vs character)

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-04-24 08:09:40 +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Note that the printf of perl, fish, gawk (and I'd expect most
> modern languages) work at character level (possibly as wrappers
> for C's wprintf()).
> 
> $ perl -CLSA -le 'for (@ARGV) {printf "|%10s|\n", $_}' Stephane Stéphane
> |  Stephane|
> |  Stéphane|

And perl has the same issue as zsh with double-width characters.

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