Comment 4 for bug 393212

Package: cowsay
Version: 3.03-9
Followup-For: Bug #254557

I noticed, that the lenght of the message is calculated erroneously
if the message contains two-byte symbols from UTF-8 encoding.

This leads, in particular, to broken balloons for such strings.

For example:
$ cowsay Hello, world
 ______________
< Hello, world >
 --------------
        \ ^__^
         \ (oo)\_______
            (__)\ )\/\
                ||----w |
                || ||
$ cowsay 'Привет, мир!'
 _______________________
< Привет, мир! >
 -----------------------
        \ ^__^
         \ (oo)\_______
            (__)\ )\/\
                ||----w |
                || ||

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cowsay depends on:
ii perl 5.8.8-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction

cowsay recommends no packages.

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