[pacman-dev] Several output issues

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/14/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:49:49PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > I remember this!
> > *ahem* I know I haven't been keeping up with all this stuff, but I
> > promise you - I'm going to, damnit.
> >
> > Anyway, I remember this "issue" and what I had done was when a
> > progress-bar line had actual output during it's display (that is, when
> > the progress was interrupted by text), the line was padded with spaces
> > and a newline, to make it look pretty.
> >
> > I'm going to guess current output changes did away with this jazz. But
> > also introduced oddities like these fun missing newlines.
> >
> > I have some time this weekend to peek at this stuff. I'm sure I'll
> > spend more time looking over what's changed since I last updated, but
> > if this isn't fixed by then, I'll get to it.
> >
>
> Just did some testing with pacman 3.0 :
> using english output, it worked fine, but in french, there already was a little
> problem :
> (1/1) Analyse des conflits entre fichiers           [############################################] 100%
> Avertissement: /etc/X11/twm/system.twmrc installé en tant que /etc/X11/twm/system.twmrc.pacnew        %
> (1/1) Mise à jour xorg-twm                          [############################################] 100%
>
>
> Just the % appeared at the end of the line.
> That's still better than the current pacman 3.1 output, as seen in my first post.

Random guess without looking at it, this is another "fail at
calculating the line length due to accented chars".