Bug 90201

Summary: Tab completion listing counts width of multibyte characters wrong
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Miloslav Trmac <mitr>
Component: bashAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Fixed In Version: 2.05b-24 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Script showing the "before" and "after" status none

Description Miloslav Trmac 2003-05-05 11:52:47 UTC
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-2.05b-20

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Using UTF-8, create files with non-ASCII characters in names in a directory
2.In that directory, type "ls " and press Tab twice
    
Actual results:
The columns of the completion alternatives listing are not lined up, counting
every byte as a distinct coumn.

Expected results:
Columns lined up.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-05-06 13:11:16 UTC
Please attach a script that does this, so we both know we're looking at the same
failure.  Sometimes there are several problems with similar symptoms.

Comment 2 Miloslav Trmac 2003-05-11 15:23:18 UTC
Created attachment 91606 [details]
Patch fixing the problem

This patch fixes the problem.
As an added bonus, it should also fix the column counting
when the file names contain control characters
(which are ^C -like escaped in the output).
I'll send this upstream in a few minutes.

Comment 3 Miloslav Trmac 2003-05-11 15:24:20 UTC
Created attachment 91607 [details]
Script showing the "before" and "after" status

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2003-05-12 10:07:56 UTC
Thanks for the patch.  Fixed package will show up in rawhide shortly.