From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Test ./E03posix.ztst was expected to fail, but passed.
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:17:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220323161730.GA1190496@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220323103835.hpoprdgt45iyqqgt@chazelas.org>
On 2022-03-23 10:38:35 +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> It's been raised several times on the POSIX mailing list, and
> my understanding the opengroup doesn't consider it as a bug, and
> they have made it clear that they would not address it. They may
> consider specifying ksh93's %Ls (which pads based on display
> width, not byte nor character count) if enough implementations
> start to support it.
>
> That's why I didn't bother raising it as a bug personally, but
> to me, that position (where printf(1) is meant to be an
> interface to printf(3) without decoding those bytes into
> characters) does not make sense. printf is to print formatted
> text, not doing padding of binary strings. printf(3) was
> extended with wprintf(3) to handle wide characters, printf(1)
> should have been enhanced to switch to that or equivalent just
> like every other text utility is now specified to be able to
> cope with wide characters.
Counting bytes seems useful, e.g. because file formats have fields
with some maximum length in *bytes*. Counting characters seems
less common. It would be more interesting to search for scripts
that use %s with a width and/or a precision, and see what they
expect.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-23 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-15 16:33 Vincent Lefevre
2022-03-15 16:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2022-03-16 15:30 ` Jun. T
2022-03-22 3:32 ` Jun T
2022-03-22 13:03 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-03-22 21:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-23 2:26 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-03-23 10:38 ` Stephane Chazelas
2022-03-23 16:17 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2022-03-23 7:14 ` Jun T
2022-03-29 9:10 ` Jun T
2022-03-29 9:00 ` Jun T
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