Re: [slang-users] printf - bug?

["John E. Davis" <jed@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bernd Eggink <be@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> () = printf("%3s\n", "ä");
>
> The output on the screen is only 2 characters wide (the German “a” with 
> an umlaut is on the right). Shouldn't `printf` count characters instead 
> of bytes?

The underlying code uses the C printf family of functions.  These use
byte semantics.  I know that this is not the answer you were looking
for, but here is a work-around:

define printf_padded (str, width)
{
   width += strbytelen(str)-strlen(str);
   () = printf("%*s", width, str);
}
printf_padded ("ä", 3);

Thanks,
--John

>
> Best regards,
> Bernd
>
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