RE: wcwidth() Standards

[Harald Alvestrand]

At 17:55 16/11/2000 +0000, Robert Brady wrote:
>We can't send context information along with text files or telnet/ssh
>sessions - we just have to define a context that is acceptable for as
>many people as possible and just use it everywhere.

actually both telnet and ssh have options to transfer environment stuff.... 
for Telnet, it's RFC 1572, I believe.

but I think it's better most of the time to "localize to the international 
context" and make things work consistently as far as possible.


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