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cowsay package

  1. Bug #393212
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 393212

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In , Anthony DeRobertis (asd-suespammers) wrote : Also doesn't calculate the width of unicode strings right for dialogue bubble

Package: cowsay
Version: 3.03-6
Followup-For: Bug #254557

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anthony@bohr:~$ cowsay '私のズボンは火事だ'
 _____________________________
< 私のズボンは火事だ >
 -----------------------------
        \ ^__^
         \ (oo)\_______
            (__)\ )\/\
                ||----w |
                || ||

(No idea what the Japanese means, btw.)

Notice how the > does not line up properly. The bubble is too wide. In
case the unicode breaks, these two lines are the same width:

    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    私のズボンは火事だ

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (130, 'unstable'), (120, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-bohr
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cowsay depends on:
ii perl [perl5] 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

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