Subj : printf and color codes
To   : Nightfox
From : MCMLXXIX
Date : Tue Jan 22 2013 12:03 pm

  Re: printf and color codes
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Jan 22 2013 07:46:06

 >   Re: printf and color codes
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Jan 21 2013 23:56:55
 > 
 >  DM> That's not how printf (and the related formatting functions) in C work
 >  DM> however. The width modifier to the %s specifier does not specify the
 >  DM> number of "printable" characters, just the number of characters, period
 >  DM> (which includes non-printable characters, like \a, \b, and so on).
 > 
 > Coming from a C/C++ background, I suspected that was so.  Even then, it seem
 > somewhat odd..  But oh well, we deal with it. :)
 > 

I still think that if the function is going to handle the non-printable
characters, it should account for them. If it's not going to account for them,
printf() shouldn't be able to handle them (like console.write)



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