Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:02:13 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/ls formatting broken for non-C(?) locales Message-ID: <20151120110212.GB21071@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20151120104253.GA21071@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20151120110556.6e20a71f@laptop.minsk.domain> <20151120104253.GA21071@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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--NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:42:53AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:05:56AM +0300, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > subj. http://i.imgur.com/F9QO29l.png > > it is on head@r290573: > > WTR: > > env LC_ALL=3Duk_UA.UTF-8 ls -la /usr/ports/databases/ or env LC_ALL=3Dr= u_RU.UTF-8 > > ls -la /usr/ports/databases/ > >=20 > > env LC_ALL=3DC ls -la /usr/ports/databases/ works fine > > also on old stable/10 (r286868) as I can see 'month' field length 3 sy= mbols=20 > >=20 > Thanks for reporting, I can reproduce the issue with some other locales. = The > thing is there seems to be no standard for abbreviated length. Formerly w= e had a > 3 character lenght for abbreviated month. >=20 > We now use CLDR which seems to follow the abbreviated rules from IBM: > "Each string must be of equal length and contain 5 characters or less" >=20 > There are 2 possible fixes: either always pad those in the locale definit= ion > which seems wrong or modify ls so that it by itself pads properly. >=20 > Neither posix nor ISO-14652 defines the length of the abbreviated form >=20 > padding in the locales themself would be wrong so I do propose to pad in = the ls > command. And padding with 5 characters. >=20 > Best regards, > Bapt For the record glibc/linux had the same problem: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D9859 "fixed" in coreutils (gnu ls) the way I propose to do for us http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=3Dcoreutils.git;a=3Dcommit;h=3D612b64= 7dd16d5abc03b295abe42d8b4a0fe660f7 Best regards, Bapt --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlZO/bQACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EwBzQCgqKq9Vgcao47r3hMs2/Ud1vsT hdMAnRRdTyvlDDE1RBaU6PFw3qtVKmTa =Dhfh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ--
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