Keld Simonsen wrote on 2000-11-16 01:09 UTC:
> wcwidth() was introduced in the AMD 1 to the C standard in 1993.
Negative. It was definitely not. It had been proposed to be added by (I
think) the Japanese ISO C delegation, along with a printf() format
specifier that gave access to similar information, but it did not make
it into the normative part of the final version of AMD 1. The final
version of AMD 1 did contain an informal comment however that said
explained the proposed wcwidth and the printf extension and why it had
been rejected. (I should have AMD 1 somewhere here, but can't find it
right now to quote chapter and verse. Guess my office urgently needs the
forthcoming annual garbage collection ...)
Also in ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E) (which includes AMD 1) the character
sequence "wcwidth" never occurs, as a grep on
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/ISO-C-FDIS.1999-04.txt
demonstrates convincingly.
Markus
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