Ken Hornstein writes:
> - The POSIX standard functions for this, wcwidth() and wcswidth(), work
>   on the current locale, which is not guaranteed to support UTF-8 (or
>   even support 8-bit characters).

Yes, but can't setlocale() temporarily change it to a UTF-8 locale?

Granted, there's no guarantee that a UTF-8 locale exists and what it's
called if it does exist, but maybe it would be appropriate to have a
configure check to find one?

-- 
Anthony J. Bentley

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