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Use display width in precision #4272

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vitaut opened this issue Dec 25, 2024 · 2 comments
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Use display width in precision #4272

vitaut opened this issue Dec 25, 2024 · 2 comments

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@vitaut
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vitaut commented Dec 25, 2024

Use display width in precision. For example:

fmt::print("{:.5}", "🐱🐱🐱");

should print

🐱🐱
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jolz commented Feb 13, 2025

fmt::print("{:.2}", "🐱🐱🐱");

does print

🐱🐱

an this matches printf-specification (but with unicode support - yeah) https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf ("Precision specifies the maximum number of bytes to be written.")

std::printf("%.2s", "abcde"); // prints "ab"

why change?

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vitaut commented Feb 13, 2025

🐱 has a width of 2:
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