diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index ea203fe2f3..2e00962c43 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Only\stry\sto\suse\sthe\sgeteuid()\sinterface\son\sunix\sif\sHAVE_FCHOWN\sis\sdefined.\nThis\sfixes\sthe\sbuild\sfor\svxWorks,\swe\sare\stold.
-D 2018-02-19T16:34:31.891
+C Enhance\sthe\sstring\sformatter\s(used\sby\sprintf())\sso\sthat\sthe\swidth\sand\nprecision\sof\sstring\ssubstitution\soperators\srefer\sto\scharacters\sinstead\sof\nbytes\swhen\sthe\salternate-form-2\sflag\s("!")\sis\sused.\s\sAlso\sfix\sthe\s%c\nsubstition\sto\salways\swork\swithin\sunicode,\sregardless\sof\sthe\s\nalternate-form-2\sflag.
+D 2018-02-19T22:46:19.020
 F .fossil-settings/empty-dirs dbb81e8fc0401ac46a1491ab34a7f2c7c0452f2f06b54ebb845d024ca8283ef1
 F .fossil-settings/ignore-glob 35175cdfcf539b2318cb04a9901442804be81cd677d8b889fcc9149c21f239ea
 F Makefile.in 7a3f714b4fcf793108042b7b0a5c720b0b310ec84314d61ba7f3f49f27e550ea
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ F src/pcache1.c 716975564c15eb6679e97f734cec1bfd6c16ac3d4010f05f1f8e509fc7d19880
 F src/pragma.c bea56df3ae0637768c0da4fbbb8f2492f780980d95000034a105ff291bf7ca69
 F src/pragma.h bb83728944b42f6d409c77f5838a8edbdb0fe83046c5496ffc9602b40340a324
 F src/prepare.c 259f4e7960c47082c9653f3d5f0c294abd68bb9c3aab86de7630700cba1c20fb
-F src/printf.c 9506b4b96e59c0467047155f09015750cb2878aeda3d39e5610c1192ddc3c41c
+F src/printf.c 07244a9e1755247c9543db551acd2f3cce461b28d13e9f3ab87053c35fd62717
 F src/random.c 80f5d666f23feb3e6665a6ce04c7197212a88384
 F src/resolve.c bbee7e31d369a18a2f4836644769882e9c5d40ef4a3af911db06410b65cb3730
 F src/rowset.c 7b7e7e479212e65b723bf40128c7b36dc5afdfac
@@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ F test/pragma4.test 3046501bee2f652dc2a4f9c87781e2741361d6864439c8381aba6c3b774b
 F test/pragma5.test 824ce6ced5d6b7ec71abe37fc6005ff836fe39d638273dc5192b39864b9ee983
 F test/pragmafault.test 275edaf3161771d37de60e5c2b412627ac94cef11739236bec12ed1258b240f8
 F test/printf.test b3ff34e73d59124140eaf89f7672e21bc2ca5fcc
-F test/printf2.test 9e6db85f81c63f2367c34a9d7db384088bd374ad
+F test/printf2.test 30b5dd0b4b992dc5626496846ecce17ff592cacbcb11c3e589f3ac4d7e129dae
 F test/progress.test ebab27f670bd0d4eb9d20d49cef96e68141d92fb
 F test/ptrchng.test ef1aa72d6cf35a2bbd0869a649b744e9d84977fc
 F test/pushdown.test 5e72c51c5e33253ed639ccee1e01ce62d62b6eee5ca893cd82334e4ee7b1d7fc
@@ -1707,7 +1707,8 @@ F vsixtest/vsixtest.tcl 6a9a6ab600c25a91a7acc6293828957a386a8a93
 F vsixtest/vsixtest.vcxproj.data 2ed517e100c66dc455b492e1a33350c1b20fbcdc
 F vsixtest/vsixtest.vcxproj.filters 37e51ffedcdb064aad6ff33b6148725226cd608e
 F vsixtest/vsixtest_TemporaryKey.pfx e5b1b036facdb453873e7084e1cae9102ccc67a0
-P 88258770adead70fa101c74e266a37bb9aaffac0ba738a4b345617feb8c46477
-R 2e4bdb0c045376ff7154d29ff239bf61
+P 38f654dc117bb11d61407327884b5c913cfaf920547bebc4ce5a4cf983e5c20e 255612f0a131f2f522cbca3cc5a1edcf7e38938abca25ba421e7e38a422db9c9
+R 508c3db0e2913d65a43c01bb9b80f5ab
+T +closed 255612f0a131f2f522cbca3cc5a1edcf7e38938abca25ba421e7e38a422db9c9
 U drh
-Z 37b9f8fa92af1d03e78cb9f20faaf7e7
+Z 1886f73e61ed30038df9856ac6df181f
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index f3e38fcfac..25a24484fc 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-38f654dc117bb11d61407327884b5c913cfaf920547bebc4ce5a4cf983e5c20e
\ No newline at end of file
+c883c4d33f4cd722982aca17eeb355d19eeed793991d923b5494d173b1d0c73a
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/printf.c b/src/printf.c
index ca8d26e4f9..11d5b82828 100644
--- a/src/printf.c
+++ b/src/printf.c
@@ -624,9 +624,38 @@ void sqlite3VXPrintf(
       case etCHARX:
         if( bArgList ){
           bufpt = getTextArg(pArgList);
-          c = bufpt ? bufpt[0] : 0;
+          length = 1;
+          if( bufpt ){
+            buf[0] = c = *(bufpt++);
+            if( (c&0xc0)==0xc0 ){
+              while( length<4 && (bufpt[0]&0xc0)==0x80 ){
+                buf[length++] = *(bufpt++);
+              }
+            }
+          }else{
+            buf[0] = 0;
+          }
         }else{
-          c = va_arg(ap,int);
+          unsigned int ch = va_arg(ap,unsigned int);
+          if( ch<0x00080 ){
+            buf[0] = ch & 0xff;
+            length = 1;
+          }else if( ch<0x00800 ){
+            buf[0] = 0xc0 + (u8)((ch>>6)&0x1f);
+            buf[1] = 0x80 + (u8)(ch & 0x3f);
+            length = 2;
+          }else if( ch<0x10000 ){
+            buf[0] = 0xe0 + (u8)((ch>>12)&0x0f);
+            buf[1] = 0x80 + (u8)((ch>>6) & 0x3f);
+            buf[2] = 0x80 + (u8)(ch & 0x3f);
+            length = 3;
+          }else{
+            buf[0] = 0xf0 + (u8)((ch>>18) & 0x07);
+            buf[1] = 0x80 + (u8)((ch>>12) & 0x3f);
+            buf[2] = 0x80 + (u8)((ch>>6) & 0x3f);
+            buf[3] = 0x80 + (u8)(ch & 0x3f);
+            length = 4;
+          }
         }
         if( precision>1 ){
           width -= precision-1;
@@ -634,12 +663,13 @@ void sqlite3VXPrintf(
             sqlite3AppendChar(pAccum, width-1, ' ');
             width = 0;
           }
-          sqlite3AppendChar(pAccum, precision-1, c);
+          while( precision-- > 1 ){
+            sqlite3StrAccumAppend(pAccum, buf, length);
+          }
         }
-        length = 1;
-        buf[0] = c;
         bufpt = buf;
-        break;
+        flag_altform2 = 1;
+        goto adjust_width_for_utf8;
       case etSTRING:
       case etDYNSTRING:
         if( bArgList ){
@@ -654,14 +684,30 @@ void sqlite3VXPrintf(
           zExtra = bufpt;
         }
         if( precision>=0 ){
-          for(length=0; length<precision && bufpt[length]; length++){}
+          if( flag_altform2 ){
+            /* Set length to the number of bytes needed in order to display
+            ** precision characters */
+            unsigned char *z = (unsigned char*)bufpt;
+            while( precision-- > 0 && z[0] ){
+              SQLITE_SKIP_UTF8(z);
+            }
+            length = (int)(z - (unsigned char*)bufpt);
+          }else{
+            for(length=0; length<precision && bufpt[length]; length++){}
+          }
         }else{
           length = 0x7fffffff & (int)strlen(bufpt);
         }
+      adjust_width_for_utf8:
+        if( flag_altform2 && width>0 ){
+          /* Adjust width to account for extra bytes in UTF-8 characters */
+          int ii = length - 1;
+          while( ii>=0 ) if( (bufpt[ii--] & 0xc0)==0x80 ) width++;
+        }
         break;
-      case etSQLESCAPE:           /* Escape ' characters */
-      case etSQLESCAPE2:          /* Escape ' and enclose in '...' */
-      case etSQLESCAPE3: {        /* Escape " characters */
+      case etSQLESCAPE:           /* %q: Escape ' characters */
+      case etSQLESCAPE2:          /* %Q: Escape ' and enclose in '...' */
+      case etSQLESCAPE3: {        /* %w: Escape " characters */
         int i, j, k, n, isnull;
         int needQuote;
         char ch;
@@ -675,9 +721,17 @@ void sqlite3VXPrintf(
         }
         isnull = escarg==0;
         if( isnull ) escarg = (xtype==etSQLESCAPE2 ? "NULL" : "(NULL)");
+        /* For %q, %Q, and %w, the precision is the number of byte (or
+        ** characters if the ! flags is present) to use from the input.
+        ** Because of the extra quoting characters inserted, the number
+        ** of output characters may be larger than the precision.
+        */
         k = precision;
         for(i=n=0; k!=0 && (ch=escarg[i])!=0; i++, k--){
           if( ch==q )  n++;
+          if( flag_altform2 && (ch&0xc0)==0xc0 ){
+            while( (escarg[i+1]&0xc0)==0x80 ){ i++; }
+          }
         }
         needQuote = !isnull && xtype==etSQLESCAPE2;
         n += i + 3;
@@ -700,10 +754,7 @@ void sqlite3VXPrintf(
         if( needQuote ) bufpt[j++] = q;
         bufpt[j] = 0;
         length = j;
-        /* The precision in %q and %Q means how many input characters to
-        ** consume, not the length of the output...
-        ** if( precision>=0 && precision<length ) length = precision; */
-        break;
+        goto adjust_width_for_utf8;
       }
       case etTOKEN: {
         Token *pToken;
@@ -742,7 +793,10 @@ void sqlite3VXPrintf(
     /*
     ** The text of the conversion is pointed to by "bufpt" and is
     ** "length" characters long.  The field width is "width".  Do
-    ** the output.
+    ** the output.  Both length and width are in bytes, not characters,
+    ** at this point.  If the "!" flag was present on string conversions
+    ** indicating that width and precision should be expressed in characters,
+    ** then the values have been translated prior to reaching this point.
     */
     width -= length;
     if( width>0 ){
diff --git a/test/printf2.test b/test/printf2.test
index d30966d167..998038f88e 100644
--- a/test/printf2.test
+++ b/test/printf2.test
@@ -148,6 +148,63 @@ do_execsql_test printf2-4.10 {
   SELECT printf('|%,d|%,d|',1234567890,-1234567890);
 } {|1,234,567,890|-1,234,567,890|}
 
+# 2018-02-19.  Unicode characters with %c
+do_execsql_test printf2-5.100 {
+  SELECT printf('(%8c)',char(11106));
+} {{(       ⭢)}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-5.101 {
+  SELECT printf('(%-8c)',char(11106));
+} {{(⭢       )}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-5.102 {
+  SELECT printf('(%5.3c)',char(1492));
+} {{(  ההה)}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-5.103 {
+  SELECT printf('(%-5.3c)',char(1492));
+} {{(ההה  )}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-5.104 {
+  SELECT printf('(%3.3c)',char(1492));
+} {{(ההה)}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-5.105 {
+  SELECT printf('(%-3.3c)',char(1492));
+} {{(ההה)}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-5.104 {
+  SELECT printf('(%2c)',char(1513));
+} {{( ש)}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-5.106 {
+  SELECT printf('(%-2c)',char(1513));
+} {{(ש )}}
+
+# 2018-02-19.  Unicode characters with the "!" flag in %s and friends.
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.100 {
+  SELECT printf('(%!.3s)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {(הנה)}
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.101 {
+  SELECT printf('(%.6s)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {(הנה)}
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.102 {
+  SELECT printf('(%!5.3s)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {{(  הנה)}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.103 {
+  SELECT printf('(%8.6s)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {{(  הנה)}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.104 {
+  SELECT printf('(%!-5.3s)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {{(הנה  )}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.105 {
+  SELECT printf('(%-8.6s)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {{(הנה  )}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.106 {
+  SELECT printf('(%!.3Q)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {('הנה')}
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.107 {
+  SELECT printf('(%.6Q)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {('הנה')}
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.108 {
+  SELECT printf('(%!7.3Q)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {{(  'הנה')}}
+do_execsql_test printf2-6.109 {
+  SELECT printf('(%10.6Q)','הנה מה־טוב ומה־נעים שבת אחים גם־יחד');
+} {{(  'הנה')}}
 
 
 finish_test