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 :-).

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Yasuhiro KIMURA

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