[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #745: r.report formatting doesn't seem to be multi-byte aware

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#745: r.report formatting doesn't seem to be multi-byte aware
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 Reporter:  peifer       |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  6.4.1                    
Component:  Raster       |     Version:  6.4.0 RCs                
 Keywords:               |    Platform:  Linux                    
      Cpu:  Unspecified  |  
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Comment(by peifer):

 Replying to [comment:3 glynn]:

 Thanks for the explanations, the situation seems to be complex. It might
 not be worth investing to much time in this in order to get a nicer
 "pritty print" functionality.


 > BTW, regarding gawk/mawk: as the ticket notes, POSIX explicitly states
 that awk matches the behaviour of printf, i.e. field widths are in bytes,
 not characters/columns.

 Gawk maintainer Arnold Robbins changed gawk's printf behaviour after I
 pointed him to the issue, some 2 years ago. (Needless to say that he knows
 that POSIX specifies it differently).


 {{{
 # bash built-in printf
 [peifer:~]> printf "%-12s|\n" "dôležité"
 dôležité |

 # The other printf
 [peifer:~]> /usr/bin/printf "%-12s|\n" "dôležité"
 dôležité |

 # Gawk 3.1.7 and higher
 [peifer:~]> gawk 'BEGIN{ printf "%-12s|\n", "dôležité" }'
 dôležité    |
 }}}

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