[pacman-dev] Several output issues

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/28/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:09:30PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > 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
>
> The issue is mainly with 3.1.
> The first post in this thread was made with 3.1. You then pointed me to
> some padding stuff, which I found only in 3.0.
> Indeed, 3.0 behaves better, except that there was a minor issue with
> widecharacters, eg. french accent é. I proposed a fix for that, but it only
> applies to 3.0 .
> 3.1 removed all that padding, so now the whole bar is displayed after output
> messages (again, see the first post in this thread).

Yeah I misunderstood just a little.
Most likely, we're going to have to add the padding back in - because
you're familiar with this problem, can you give me a test case for
this? LANG=fr_FR pacman -S foo ?