[Remind-Fans] Dealing with non-latin characters in calendar output

Jochen Sprickerhof jochen at sprickerhof.de
Sun Nov 24 03:05:27 EST 2019


Hi,

* Retourné du Japon <khatre at gmail.com> [2019-11-24 00:01]:
>> I recently realized that when my reminder file contains non-latin
>> characters in the reminder's MSG, the calendar output (`remind -cu+1`, for
>> example) miscalculates the width of the message and so the output is messed
>> up.
>>
>> An example reminder file that exhibits the problem:
>>
>> REM Jan 21 2019 *1 MSG ನಮಸ್ಕಾರಗಳು!
>> REM Jan 21 2019 *1 MSG Hello!

This works fine for me on a current Debian unstable (using 
fonts-noto-core and stterm), see the attached screenshot.

Which remind version did you try and on which system? Does it show up 
correct when printing the file to the terminal?

Cheers Jochen
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