Hi,
I'm using Par (in linux) to get nice comments formatting quickly. The problem is that now I want to introduce comments that include some international characters, like áéíóú or äëïöü...
The program Berkeley Par considers these international characters as 2 ASCII characters (I believe) and it outputs the comments somehow broken because it doesn't count characters properly.
Did you face this problem before? Do you have any solution? Ideas?
I've never even heard of this tool, but check out par 1.52.
The latest version of Par, released on 2001-Apr-29, tar'd and gzip'd. The only real change is better support for 8-bit character sets (as opposed to just 7-bit ASCII), but see also the release notes.
Edit: On the page, see par_1.52-i18n.3.diff.gz:
A patch by Jérôme Pouiller that adds support for multibyte charsets (like UTF-8), plus Debian packaging. Copied from http://sysmic.org/par/debian/. See also his original announcement.
Par, as distributed in Ubuntu from Hardy on, is supposed to handle multi-byte encodings.
You mean the code from Add multibyte characters support in "par" (or just the patches applied to the original source) don't work for you?
Then maybe it is a problem with your shell or the font it uses. Are you sure the shell and font you use is able to reproduce unicode characters