Detab should be multi-byte aware?

[Allan Odgaard]

On 10. Oct 2006, at 00:52, Michel Fortin wrote:


> [...] From your description of the problem, I believe you're not  

> using UTF-8.


No, here is an example showing the problem:

     % Markdown.pl <<< $'    Test:\n    resume\tbar\n    résumé\tbar\n'
     <pre><code>Test:
     resume  bar
     résumé    bar
     </code></pre>

     % expand  -t4 <<< $'    Test:\n    resume\tbar\n    résumé\tbar\n'
         Test:
         resume  bar
         résumé  bar

As you can see, expand is able to correctly convert tabs to spaces,  
where Markdown.pl counts the é as occupying two columns.