Bug#197416: detailed problem description and a patch (workaround)

[Josselin Mouette]

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unmerge 197416
reassign 197416 libpopt0
tag 197416 patch
thanks

Le jeu 05/02/2004 =E0 18:20, Sergey Spiridonov a =E9crit :
> Hi,
>=20
> After hacking a bit, I found out, that the problem is caused by libpopt.
>=20
> Libpopt uses char to calculate line lengths (it needs to calculate line
> lengths because of the wrapping it does during help output). Libpopt=20
> assumes 79 chars as maximum width of the line on the screen. It looks=20
> for the option+description with maximum length in chars.
>=20
> It is already wrong, since Russian text uses UTF-8, and in UTF-8 four=20
> chars(bytes) can be displayed as one character on the screen. Anyway,
> after finding out the length, libpopt calculates some offsets. The
> offset becomes negative. This negative value is used for mallocs,=20
> pointer arithmetics and so on.
>=20
> The patch below, just fixes the line, where the offset becomes negative,
> so gconftool-2 does not produce megabytes of garbage on stdout.
> It is not best solution. The best solution will be to
> 1. rewrite libopt to handle UTF-8 properly (for example using wchar)
> and
> 2. rewrite help output formatting (with the attached patch Russian help
> will not be formatted very nice).

OK, reassigning to libpopt0.

Regards,
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