`timew day` crashes hard on Chinese tags

[ShizuhaAki]

This is not reproduced when I used English tags before. Apart from the display being wrecked. Some tags (long ones) went missing.

I'm using timew 1.4.3 on macOS's iTerm terminal.

P.S. changing terminal font & resolution, etc. yields the same result.

[lauft]

@Ravenclaw-OIer Could you supply a minimal reproducing script? From the picture alone, it is difficult to get to the bottom of the problem.

[ShizuhaAki]

@Ravenclaw-OIer Could you supply a minimal reproducing script? From the picture alone, it is difficult to get to the bottom of the problem.

@lauft Is there away to create a Virtual Environment-like env that I can play around with timew in?

[lauft]

@Ravenclaw-OIer
Use the following bash script template to create your reproducer:

# Set Timewarriors DB to '/tmp/timewarriordb'
export TIMEWARRIORDB=/tmp/timewarriordb
# Remove anything from previous runs
rm -rf ${TIMEWARRIORDB}
# Make sure 'data' directory exists
mkdir -p ${TIMEWARRIORDB}/data
# Create an empty config file
:> ${TIMEWARRIORDB}/timewarrior.cfg

# Add your reproducing commands here
...

[cyberme0w]

Hi there, I'm not the original poster, but I stumbled upon this as it is still open and was able to reproduce part of the issue, namely the disappearing (chinese) tags:

# Setup
export TIMEWARRIORDB=/tmp/timewarriordb
rm -rf ${TIMEWARRIORDB}
mkdir -p ${TIMEWARRIORDB}/data
:> ${TIMEWARRIORDB}/timewarrior.cfg

# Steps
timew start 传传传传传传传
sleep 1
timew stop

timew lengthen @1 2.5hour
timew day # this will not yet display the tag

timew lengthen @1 15min
timew day # the tag is now visible again

Hopefully this helps, if only by having some steps to reproduce.

It seemed to be a fair assumption that this affected any wide chars, and testing with cuneiform chars (𒀖) returned the same result - the tag is only visible if all chars in the tag fit the space available.

Also, using multiple tags where at least one of them uses wide-chars behaves in a similar fashion: either all tags fit the given space, or no tag is displayed, including the non-wide-char tags.