Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote: |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
oh, ah, yes. So.. i got it right without getting it right. Interestingly, yesterday started a retrospective work on Walter Benjamin (<http://www.eingedenken.de/enter.html> -- "rememberance"): an artist (Christoph Korn) walked hist last trip from Banyuls-sur-Mer (France) to Portbou (Spain; where he committed suicide due to the impossibility to reach the U.S.), following a fixated time frame (monotonic tick, so to say) after which he spoke thesis of Benjamin (like, e.g., "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism."), followed by holding in and taking a (steady cam) video of the recent leg. Association with Paul Klees "Angelus Novus" is desired (from both parties). |inject levity into the discussion. That was easy. --steffen
