Keld Simonsen wrote on 2001-05-14 14:04 UTC:
> 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.
If that's the ISO standard that's already going to specify wcswidth,
then it would be the right place.
Markus
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