Re: Bug#317549: tin: Linebreaks between words when lines are longer than window width

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:50:32PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> There is a small issue related to this though. tin generates a warning 
> when a line in a composed message exceeds 78 characters. It's good 
> feature but actually it counts bytes not characters. I use UTF-8 locale 
> and messages often contain multibyte characters. Even when I save my 
> message with no longer lines than 72 characters I get this warning from 
> lines which contain enough multibyte characters to exceed the limit of 78 
> bytes per line.

yes, this is a bug in post.c:check_article_to_be_posted() ~ line 1118
the code is much older than tins multibyte support and when we added
the multibyte stuff we failed to update that bits of code as well...

@tin-dev: anyone willing to look at this?

> I want to thank you and the team for this great newsreader! I think no 
> other readers come even close in usability and speed.