On 4/11/14, 6:16 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
> |On 4/10/14, 12:16 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> |
> |> Even better would nonetheless be the great picture with
> |> a termios(4) IUTF8 flag, some extended xywidth(3) that returns
> |> a tuple of {[EastAsianWidth indication,] is-combining,
> |> width-if-non-combining} and best even some composition function.
> |
> |But we have always been at war with EastAsia!
>
> I see you really would love to get a hand from POSIX too:
I'm sorry, I realize that was rather obscure. It's from "1984", by George
Orwell. It's a central theme to the book. The quote was an attempt to
inject levity into the discussion.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
