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-rw-r--r--Src/utils.c16
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f5b0f2ae2..55a917068 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-12-07  Peter Stephenson  <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
+
+	* 37331: Src/utils.c: use a single character to represent an
+	MB_INCOMPLETE string even if multiple octets.
+
 2015-12-07  Peter Stephenson  <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
 
 	* 37337: Src/Zle/zle.h, Src/Zle/zle_main.c,
diff --git a/Src/utils.c b/Src/utils.c
index 45f8286df..fc2b1920e 100644
--- a/Src/utils.c
+++ b/Src/utils.c
@@ -5180,11 +5180,15 @@ mb_metastrlenend(char *ptr, int width, char *eptr)
 
 	if (ret == MB_INCOMPLETE) {
 	    /*
-	     * "num_in_char" is only used for incomplete characters.  The
-	     * assumption is that we will output this ocatet as a single
+	     * "num_in_char" is only used for incomplete characters.
+	     * The assumption is that we will output all trailing octets
+	     * that form part of an incomplete character as a single
 	     * character (of single width) if we don't get a complete
-	     * character; if we do get a complete character, num_in_char
-	     * becomes irrelevant and is set to zero.
+	     * character.  This is purely pragmatic --- I'm not aware
+	     * of a standard way of dealing with incomplete characters.
+	     *
+	     * If we do get a complete character, num_in_char
+	     * becomes irrelevant and is set to zero
 	     *
 	     * This is in contrast to "num" which counts the characters
 	     * or widths in complete characters.  The two are summed,
@@ -5216,8 +5220,8 @@ mb_metastrlenend(char *ptr, int width, char *eptr)
 	}
     }
 
-    /* If incomplete, treat remainder as trailing single bytes */
-    return num + num_in_char;
+    /* If incomplete, treat remainder as trailing single character */
+    return num + (num_in_char ? 1 : 0);
 }
 
 /*