Re: wcwidth() implementation

[Robert Brady <rwb197@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> Once the C library provides such a wcwidth() function, xterm can call it
> in order to determine whether to pick a character from the halfwidth or
> fullwidth font. This way, applications and terminal emulator will
> eventually get the width information from the same source (libc), and
> even if people want to have different width conventions for terminal
> emulators, it can all be handled by selecting proper locales on all
> sides. For the moment however, let's see whether we can stick to just
> one single width table, namely the one implemented in the attached
> function.

Cheers. This shall be in patch #7.

-- 
Robert

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