printf and utf-8

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:03:44PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> >Do you have a suggestion to solve the following problem without  
> >using printf(1):
> >
> >I have a text file that I want to print in a "box" on a terminal  
> >from a shell script. Now I've padded the lines with spaces to a  
> >certain length using printf %-70s and appended the box drawing  
> >character. Is there another simple way that will work with utf-8?
> 
> My first thought was about dialog(1), but I'm not sure whether that  
> deals with UTF8 any better...?

There's dialog(1) in the FreeBSD tree, and dialog(1) on my website.
The latter can work with UTF-8 (if it's built with ncursesw).
But that's a little different from printf...

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Thomas E. Dickey
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