On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:26:51PM -0400, ＳｒｉｎＴｕａｒ wrote: > It seems they are double width in most fonts, but on my systems even > in east asian locales they still return widths of 1. (so I get funny > overlaps in my terminals )
Though I cannot answer your original question, I've just found recently that glibc's wcwidth database suffers from problems. There are a lot of letters or letter-like symbols that are unprintable according to glibc (wcwidth returns -1, iswprint returns 0). For example U+0221 (latin small letter d with curl) is the first such character. I think we should submit a bugreport for glibc... I don't know whether the width info varies or should vary between different utf-8 locales. -- Egmont -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
