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bug#23191: ls alignment bug
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#23191: ls alignment bug |
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Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:28:07 +0000 |
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On 02/04/16 04:01, Seth Kushniryk wrote:
> I forgot to mention that this is coreutils 8.21 in Slackware
>
> On 01-Apr-16 19:53, Seth Kushniryk wrote:
>> Hi, I've been having a minor issue with ls. It seems that sometimes the
>> character 'é' (e accent aigu) causes the rest of the listing to be
>> misaligned. My options are "-F -T 0".
>>
>> Here is an example of me using it in my music library:
>>
>> First Aid Kit/ Pink Floyd/ The Who/
>> Fleetwood Mac/ Queen/ Ton Koopman/
>> Foreigner/ Rage Against The Machine/ Trooper/
>> Frank Sinatra/ Red Rider/ U2/
>> Félix Leclerc/ Rodriguez/ Van Morrison/
>> George Harrison/ Roy Orbison/ Whitesnake/
>> Green Day/ Run-DMC/ Woody Guthrie/
>> Iron Butterfly/ Rush/
>> James/ Simon and Garfunkel/
>>
>> Renaming the directory to "Felix Leclerc" fixes the issue. I think the
>> problem is in "ls.c" in the function "quote_name", and what it sets for
>> "size_t *width".
I think the problem is your locale settings.
It looks like the file is on disk in UTF-8 (where é takes 2 bytes),
while ls(1) is running in a single byte locale such as en_US.
In that mode those bytes are interpreted by ls(1) as separate
printable characters, resulting in the misalignment.
The -T0 uses spaces rather than tabs for alignment making
the issue more likely to hit.
The fix would be to set your locale to en_US.utf8 or equivalent.
thanks,
Pádraig
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