At 05:38 14/11/2000 +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>We will eventually have to sit down and write a more formal standard than
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c
>
>that says what wcwidth should be for a VT100 UTF-8 terminal emulator
>(something like an RFC, Unicode TR, or ECMA standard), in order to
>ensure wcwidth interoperability between systems (in the light of telnet,
>ssh, etc.).
seems that something like "guidelines for how character cell systems are
supposed to behave with Unicode" might be a Good Thing as a tech report or
info RFC. Info RFCs don't need much formalism to get published, if the
content makes sense.
some details like width of character needs standardization, if there is a
basis for what the concept means.
Is wcwidth() actually owned by some standard organization?
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