[pacman-dev] Several output issues

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/14/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:15:19AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 9/14/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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".
>
> Yes, that was the problem indeed.
> Since I didn't know anything about this stuff, I asked for some help on ##c :)
> So it's possible to compute the real number of characters using mblen in a
> loop. I did that on pacman 3.0 and it works fine, the above problem is fixed.
>
> About pacman 3.1 , I see Dan removed that pm_printf function, and later added
> back a much simpler version of it, without all that padding stuff.
> So maybe the old version should be restored?

Prodding here. Is this still an issue with the git version? It seems
the output functions are much improved