Hi, Ted Unangst wrote on Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 12:57:17PM -0500: > Lauri Tirkkonen wrote:
>> in other words, xterm is (and was) using its own idea of how many >> columns characters take up. The way this manifested itself to me was >> that I received some email that contained emoji characters in the >> subject, and they look fine in mutt when I use another terminal (st on >> OpenBSD, or termux on my Android phone), but on 'xterm -fa "DejaVu Sans >> Mono"' on OpenBSD, only the left half of these characters is rendered, >> and mutt's index background color indicating the selection doesn't reach >> the right edge of the screen: libc wcwidth() returns 2, but xterm's idea >> seems to be 1 column. > Sigh, here we go again. Some systems have a bad function, so let's replace it > with a slightly better version, and then never update it. If there are bugs in > the libc wcwidth function, we'd very much like to know and fix them, not have > these workarounds. I'm counting that as OK tedu@, but i'll wait a bit before committing in case matthieu@ (or someone else) wants to speak up. Yours, Ingo
