Hi,
From: Xianping Ge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unicode
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:30:56 -0700
> I have a working patch against rxvt-2.7.3 to enable
> multibyte-char, e.g., Unicode (UTF-8), GBK, Big5, etc:
>
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~xge/clinux/rxvt/
>
> This patch is quite usable (I'm using it everyday), although there were a
> couple of minor bugs. The most URGENT thing on the to-do list is to write
> some real code to classify a Unicode character as single-width (e.g., ASCII)
> or double-width (e.g., Chinese characters). Currently, I make everything > 255
> as double-width, which is obviously wrong. Need to read through Unicode
> documents to get this right. When this is done (and most bugs removed), I'll
> propose the patch to be merged.
Did you know doublewidth/combining patch for xterm-utf8 ?
http://www.wholehog.fsnet.co.uk/robert/xterm/
The patch has a function my_wcwidth(). This may be helpful.
BTW, how do you think about supporting ISO2022-based encodings
like Kterm does?
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/
