Robert Brady writes:
> And how on earth is the program running in the terminal supposed to know
> the widths of the characters?
The width table is an attached to the charmap used by 'localedef' to
define the locale.
It doesn't make sense to start xterm in UTF-8 mode in anything else
than an UTF-8 locale. All the UTF-8 locales share the same width
information. So there is no problem.
In EUC-JP locales, OTOH, one would start an EUC-JP aware terminal, and
it's supposed to choose a font with double-width cyrillic, according
to the EUC-JP charmap. And so on for the other charmaps which have
width information.
Bruno
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