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Subject: printf and utf-8
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As far as I can see, printf is not calculating strings lengths correctly 
when using utf-8 encoding. Either that, or I'm using byte count, and 
can't find the character count :-/

Eg:

$ printf "|%-10s|" "זרו"
|זרו    |

$ printf "|%-10s|" "123"
|123       |

I'm on 7.1-p2



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