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Re: wcwidth() implementation

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Subject: Re: wcwidth() implementation
From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:42:11 +0100 (CET)
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Markus Kuhn wrote:

>   - I do fully understand that for legacy applications some CJK users
>     might perhaps want to use locales in which the width is compatible to
>     JIS X 201 or similar standards.

This is mainly interesting for roundtrip conversion or for special styles.
Most CJK users will be happy to treat all alphabet-based characters as
single-width.  Therefore the option of using double-width for alphabetic
characters could be relegated away from the locale to a style level.

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phm

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