> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Is wcwidth() actually owned by some standard organization?
Well, not wcwidth, but UAX 11 ("East Asian Width",
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr11/) is a
Standard Annex of the Unicode 3.0 standard. The associated
data file is in the UCD (Unicode Character Database):
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/EastAsianWidth.txt.
This width data is intended for use in applications that
are intended to work with Unicode data in the same way
as older versions (or similar programs) worked (from a UI
point of view) for certain East Asian encodings. This
width data is not intended for use with applications
that need not take "legacy width" into account (like
applications that can use proportional width fonts).
Relevant to this e-mail thread is also the general
recommendation from Unicode consortium to NOT use
Arabic presentation forms characters, which are there
for purely political reasons.
Kind regards
/kent k
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