Re: Command line output mis-alignment.

[Amarendra Godbole <amarendra_godbole@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/27/2005 11:36:48 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Amarendra Godbole wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >The output of a command that prints a tabular output (with a
> >tab separator) is susceptible for a mis-alignment across
> >different languages. Mostly the headers' get mis-aligned with
> >the column data in a multi-byte language like Japanese. I have
> >been thinking of this issue for a while, and here are the
> >possible solutions to it -
[...]

> Would it be an option for you to default to, let's say, the
> POSIX or  en_US.UTF-8 locales?

Not really. I might have to revert to this option, if no proper
solution is found.

> Before running the mentioned commands, you can reset on demand
> the  LANG/LANGAUGE variables to values of your choice.
> It looks as a hell of a problem to parse output that is
> affected by l10n.

Yes. True.

Cheers,
Amarendra

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