On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:09:33PM +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Pablo Saratxaga wrote on 2001-05-10 15:50 UTC:
>
> The thing that I *REALLY* miss is the multi-byte version of wcwidth and
> wcswidth:
>
> mbwidth column width of one multi-byte character
> mbswidth column width of a multi-byte string
>
> It would be up to X/Open to add these, because ISO C has decided that it
> doesn't want to be responsible with character terminal width
> information.
>
> Can mbwidth/mbswidth still be squeezed into the currently being
> finalized POSIX/SUS merger specification?
It could be put into the draft ISO 15435 i18n APIs if you want.
This interfaces to 14652 which has specs for width of characters.
Kind regards
keld
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