Re: wcwidth and glibc 2.2

["Dennis L. Goyette Sr." <dennisg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Haible wrote:

> Dennis L. Goyette Sr. writes:
> > Can anybody give me a "what's up" on which LC_  I should define to do
> > unicode....I'm running redhat 7.0 and what to be able to display CJK characters
> > easily.. are there certain fonts I need installed
>
> Yes. The fonts I recommend most are
>   - for programs using fixed-width fonts:
>     Markus Kuhn's ucs-fonts package
>       http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
>   - for programs using proportional fonts:
>     the GNU unifont from Roman Czyborra
>       http://czyborra.com/unifont/
>     the BitStream Cyberbit font
>       ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows/Cyberbit.ZIP
>
> > how do I check to see which ones I have installed
>
> Using xlsfonts.
>
> > do I use wprintf
>
> I don't recommend it - it doesn't mix well with printf. Better use
> printf with the %lc and %ls directives.

what data types are normally used for %lc & %ls???  Does it all depend on how many
bytes it takes to display a character???  Could you please give an example that
would be helpfull???? thanks


>
>
> > if I do a setlocale(LC_ALL, "Japanese") MB_CUR_MAX is 3....
>
> Sure, because EUC-JP has at most 3 bytes per char.
>
> > what do I need to setlocale to to get MB_CUR_MAX to 2 ......
>
> Use the ja_JP.SJIS locale. You won't be able to display JIS X 0212
> characters in this locale.
>
> Bruno
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