On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 5:54 PM, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils) < 962-396-1...@kylheku.com> wrote:
In what situation are there printable characters in the range [0, > UCHAR_MAX) that > have a width > 1? I agree that it is unlikely, but POSIX doesn't specify anything about the width of particular characters, so we don't have any guarantees. (There could be a system that says that all printing characters are 20 units wide.) We're not even guaranteed that the characters are in Unicode order. So why make assumptions when you can ask the OS and be confident of being portable? Eric
