bug#79497: fmt breaks lines when it does not need to

James Cloos <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
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>>>>> "BH" == Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports <[email protected]> writes:

BH> $ fmt -w 12 -g 12 input.txt
BH> Grüß
BH> Gott.

BH> $ fmt -w 13 -g 13 input.txt
BH> Grüß Gott.
BH> Why does it take a width of 13, in order to keep the first two words
BH> on a single line? That line has width 10.

odds are that fmt(1) is counting octets rather that characters.

-JimC
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