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PSPP-BUG: [bug #58732] string variable with umlaut has reduced width


From: John Darrington
Subject: PSPP-BUG: [bug #58732] string variable with umlaut has reduced width
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 01:08:38 -0400 (EDT)
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Follow-up Comment #1, bug #58732 (project pspp):

When I have considered this issue in the past, I've always concluded that
there can be no solution, if we're to keep spss compatibility.

The problem is, that the "width" of a string variable is defined as the number
of bytes (not characters) that the variable contains.

The symptoms are even worse, if a multibyte character happens to overlap the
end of the string - it gets curtailed and transformed into something else :(

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