[Bug 1562308] Re: missing or duplicate lines caused by a wrapped line with wide characters

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Mitsuya! Thank you for preparing the debdiff. I checked upstream
and the bug in mention was indeed fixed there - but it seems that their
fix for mkutable (at upstream) is different. I would prefer if Ubuntu
didn't diverge from upstream if possible. Is it because the way it's
done in 487 is not applicable on top of 481? Or what is the reason for
the differences?

Thanks!

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Title:
  missing or duplicate lines caused by a wrapped line with wide
  characters

Status in less package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When you scroll down text with "j" key and encounter a wrapped line
  with wide characters (such as UTF8-encoded Japanese characters),
  "less" seems to show the whole wrapped line at a single "j" key,
  causing the view scroll down by 2 lines at once. Strangely, if you
  type "k" to scroll up, it does that by only 1 line. As a result, there
  is a missing line that should have been shown.

  Even stranger stuff (i.e., duplicate lines) happens when you type "j"
  and "k" alternately when a wrapped line with wide characters is at the
  bottom of the view.

  
  # Steps to reproduce

  1. Open xterm.
  2. Set the geometory of xterm to 71x22.
  3. Open the attached lesstest.long_jap.txt with less (maybe you need
     environment variable LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8)
  4. Type "j", then you will see "003" at the top, and a long wrapped
     line with Japanese characters at the bottom.
  5. Type "k", then you will see "001" and "003" at the top. "002" is
     missing.

  # Expected behavior

  In step 4, only the first part of the wrapped line should be shown.

  In step 5, all "001", "002" and "003" should be shown.

  
  # Test Environment

  - Xubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) beta (in VirtualBox on Xubuntu 14.04)
  - less: 481-2.1
  - xterm: 322-1ubuntu1
  - Japanese environment (LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8)

  
  # Note

  - The same problem happens on xfce4-terminal (0.6.3-2ubuntu1)
  - lv (4.51-2.3build1) doesn't have such problem.
  - In "less" in Xubuntu 14.04 (version 458-2), this problem didn't
    exist.

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