On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
> I don't know if anyone *really* cares, but they are there, and
> they are "doublewidth". But: 1) UAX 11 does care about this for
> compatibility reasons; and 2) this kind of "width" data really
> belongs *in* (or associated with) the font. So by choosing an
> appropiate font list (in your terminal emulator preferences, or
> whatever) one could provide the "context" needed, even for PUA
> characters. An FDCC-set is most certainly the wrong place (unless
> you also consider putting fonts there...).
And how on earth is the program running in the terminal supposed to know
the widths of the characters?
No, we need wcwidth() to be locale-invariant.
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