Re: Alignment bug in ls with UTF-8 filenames under Mac OS X

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On 2007-01-15 21:05:53 -0600, Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden> said:

> Hi,
>
> Under Mac OS X 10.4.8 with ls (GNU coreutils) 5.97 (installed via
> MacPorts), in a 80-column terminal (uxterm), I get:
>
> $ ls
> É                               y123456789012345678901234567890
> x123456789012345678901234567890  z123456789012345678901234567890
>
> instead of:
>
> $ ls
> É                                y123456789012345678901234567890
> x123456789012345678901234567890  z123456789012345678901234567890
>
> Note:
>
> $ locale
> LANG="POSIX"
> LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> LC_TIME="POSIX"
> LC_ALL="POSIX/en_US.UTF-8/POSIX/POSIX/POSIX/POSIX"
>
> Regards,

How to reproduce, please?

Does changing the Apple Terminal Window Settings aka Terminal Inspector
help?  In particular, select the tab named Display, and try the first
three checkmarks under the Text Font section there.  Sometimes the
Anti-Alias setting is enough to push the width of the character cell
over to make the rest of the printed line line-up properly.  The next
two checkmarks are for wide glyphs, sometimes Terminal needs to be
fooled with these settings for accented chars anyway.

How does iTerm behave?  They've been working on some enhancements of
their own (nevermind Apple ;) ).


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