[pacman-dev] [PATCH v2] util.c: table_print_line: properly align texts involving CJK

[Chih-Hsuan Yen]

For printf in C, width is counted as bytes rather than Unicode width. [1]

> If the precision is specified, no more than that many bytes are written.

[1] Section 7.21.6, N2176, final draft for ISO/IEC 9899:2017 (C18)

Thanks Andrew Gregory for suggesting a simpler approach.

Fixes FS#59229

Signed-off-by: Chih-Hsuan Yen <yan12125 at gmail.com>
---
 src/pacman/util.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/pacman/util.c b/src/pacman/util.c
index e9187529..0c6a0c09 100644
--- a/src/pacman/util.c
+++ b/src/pacman/util.c
@@ -522,7 +522,9 @@ static void table_print_line(const alpm_list_t *line, short col_padding,
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		cell_width = (cell->mode & CELL_RIGHT_ALIGN ? (int)widths[i] : -(int)widths[i]);
+		/* calculate cell width, adjusting for multi-byte character strings */
+		cell_width = (int)widths[i] - string_length(str) + strlen(str);
+		cell_width = cell->mode & CELL_RIGHT_ALIGN ? cell_width : -cell_width;
 
 		if(need_padding) {
 			printf("%*s", col_padding, "");
-- 
2.28.0