[Issue 203] std.format.doFormat() pads width incorrectly on Unicode strings

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=203


thomas-dloop at kuehne.cn changed:

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           Keywords|wrong-code                  |spec
         OS/Version|Windows                     |All




------- Comment #1 from thomas-dloop at kuehne.cn  2007-04-29 02:09 -------
> One would expect the last two strings, having five characters each,
> to both be padded in the front by three spaces: however, it appears
> the byte count is being used for determining the length and not the
> actual character count, and so the last string is padded by only one
> space.

The only relevant documentation I found is:
> Width
>    Specifies the minimum field width. If the width is a *, the next
>    argument, which must be of type int, is taken as the width. If
>    the width is negative, it is as if the - was given as a Flags
>    character.

"field width" could be both interpreted as " byte length" and
"UTF codepoint count".


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