From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:35:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Broken interactive rebase text after some UTF-8 characters
Message-ID: <xmqqimy41pdu.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <2cbb5818-643d-bafd-6721-91e0d291a5fd@talktalk.net>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:

>> Are we misusing C formats?
>
> The C standard and POSIX both say that the * refers to the maximum
> number of bytes to print but it looks like it is being treated as the
> maximum number of characters on OpenIndiana.
>
> Johannes - Perhaps we should change it to use fwrite() unless printf()
> gets fixed and we're sure no other operating systems are affected?

Avoid such a rewrite, as "%*.s" that takes (int, char *) are used in
many other places in our codebase, if you can.