"Bi-width" terminal fonts supporting single- and double-cell glyphs (Unicode: "half-width" and "full-width") are no longer rare.
We must consequently distinguish characters from character cells. --- man/ncurses.3x | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/ncurses.3x b/man/ncurses.3x index d35af8807..9e24931ab 100644 --- a/man/ncurses.3x +++ b/man/ncurses.3x @@ -1158,7 +1158,7 @@ .SS "\fICC\fP (command character)" .I \%ncurses ignores its value if it is not one character in length. .SS "\fICOLUMNS\fP" -This variable specifies the width of the screen in characters. +This variable specifies the width of the screen in character cells. Applications running in a windowing environment usually are able to obtain the width of the window in which they are executing. .I \%ncurses -- 2.30.2
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