On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:59:18AM -0800, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> 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.
I will incorporate Markus table in the forthcoming ISO/IEC DTR 14652.
In this way you will have an ISO specification of the data.
> Is wcwidth() actually owned by some standard organization?
It is part of the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 programming language C
standard, and also incuded in the POSIX standard.o
Kind regards
Keld
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