Re: slnunicode format %NNs seems to be not unicode-aware

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

On 14/09/2013 13:49, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
> Hi, list!
>
> $ lua -l unicode
> Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> > =unicode.utf8.format("|%5s|", "12345")
> |12345|
> > return unicode.utf8.format("|%5s|", "12")
> |   12|
> > return unicode.utf8.format("|%5s|", "абвгд")
> |абвгд|
> > return unicode.utf8.format("|%5s|", "абв")
> |абв|
> > return unicode.utf8.format("|%5s|", "аб")
> | аб|
>
> It seems that length in bytes is used instead of length in characters.
>
> Judging from the code here, string is simply formatted using
> non-unicode-aware s[n]printf:
>
> https://github.com/LuaDist/slnunicode/blob/master/slnunico.c#L1227

You can take a look at our fork [1] of this library (the issue in 
question is fixed there).

[1] http://farmanager.com/svn/trunk/plugins/luamacro/luafar/slnunico.c

--
Shmuel