Re: Wrong alignment in select lists

[Jan Schampera]

Bernd Eggink wrote:

> Select lists are sometimes displayed with incorrect vertical alignment 
> if an item contains one or more German umlauts. Examples:
>
>     select x in äöü blah{1..20}; do :; done        # wrong
>     select x in amöbe blah{1..20}; do :; done    # wrong
>     select x in amöb blah{1..20}; do :; done    # wrong
>     select x in amö blah{1..20}; do :; done        # OK
>
> Bash version is 4.1.7(1)-release, LANG is de_DE.UTF-8.
>
> Bernd

It's long ago I since inspected the select code, but I think it's 
because it counts bytes for the space calculations. The last one 
succeeds because there's a minimum width reached.

J.