[Bug 393212] Re: cowsay miscalculates length of multibyte-UTF-8-characters

[Andrew Marsh]

I have created a fix to this problem and shll upload it as soon as I
work out how to do it. Basically the bug is that perl does not know that
the input is supposed to be a utf-8 string. By adding use Encode to the
top of the file and by using Encode::decode_utf8 before checking the
length of the string the problem is fixed.

Unfortunately, this will still not work with all unicode characters as
some, for instance japanese characters, are not the same width as other
characters in the default terminal font.

** Patch added: "cowsay"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39303213/cowsay

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cowsay miscalculates length of multibyte-UTF-8-characters
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393212
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