Re: Doublewidth EM DASH for unhappy English people

[Markus Kuhn]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2001-04-11 15:28 UTC:
> If it is possible to add ESC sequences to query the terminal for width
> of a character, the 'telnet to another machine' problem can also be
> solved.

I don't think we want to turn VT100 into X11. There are various
backwards-compatibility and synchronization problems with sending large
chunks of data back from the terminal through a channel that was
originally only supposed to be used only for keyboard data.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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