On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:21:03PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Thomas> One interesting question is how to adapt the technique to > Thomas> other scripts besides ASCII. > > Every kanji counts for two columns, anybody? Or should it be three in > UTF-8, with latin-1 getting 2? ;-)
What about the zenkaku characters? Those are 'obviously' one character, occupying two character cells, and taking three bytes >:) Systems which rely on interpreting the 'width' of characters might not intrinsically be doomed to insanity and madness, but they sure look like it. -- Andrew Suffield
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