On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 06:12:25PM +0100, Robert Brady wrote:
> Now I've finished exams and have some spare time, I'm working on debugging
> the xterm/doublewide/combining patch. I am confused as to how cursor
> behaviour should work again. :)

actually it's more of an application issue than the terminal.
 
> or would it be like
> 
>    [][][][][][][][][]
>   []

the latter - the people who document this stuff (curses and multibyte) leave
room on the end of the line.  That avoids problems with terminals that might
not handle wraparound with multibyte characters.

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