Re: XTerm char-width handling

["T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net>]

> I think he means that the WHOLE double-cell character disappears and 
> is replaced by the single-cell character (the remainder of the line 
> shifting to the left).  This of course is the observed behaviour of 
> any Japanese aware application (like Japanese vi), but as far as I can 
> see, it is the applications responsibility to implement this. 

or the library's (such as curses).  That is essentially what X/Open
curses describes (multi-byte characters are assumed to display in multiple
cells).
  
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