portindex output depends on the locales

[Vincent Lefevre]

It seems that no-one answered:

On 2007-02-07 12:55:47 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The output of the portindex commands depends on whether the character
> set is UTF-8 or, e.g., ISO-8859-1, due to non-ASCII characters in a
> description: the number after the port name seems to contain the
> number of characters instead of the number of bytes. For instance,
> I get:
> 
> stardict-xmlittre 310
> 
> in ISO-8859-1, but
> 
> stardict-xmlittre 308
> 
> in UTF-8. Is this difference important?

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