From: Nicholas Marriott <[email protected]> Subject: Re: --enable-utf8proc option of configure Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:10:07 +0000
> The last Unicode standard changed the widths for a number of fancy symbols. > While this was being adopted by various > programs some of the terminals, fonts and similar updated much faster than > system libraries. utf8proc was added to allow > tmux to work for people who has a Unicode 9 or 10 terminal and a Unicode 7 or > 8 or 9 libc (because utf8proc offered a > later Unicode version). > > It also helped for people on OS X because Apple don't really know what they > are doing and broke some codepoints. > > I think this time has mostly passed for the moment. I don't recommend you use > it unless you are seeing issues with > character widths. Thank you for quick reply. Since I'm not faced with any character width issue, I decided to forget this options according to your recommendation :-). --- Yasuhiro KIMURA
