Re: To Do List for 2001

[Robert Brady <robert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Robert Brady wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> 
> >   - readline and the bash command line editor still live in a 1 byte =
> >     1 character = 1 terminal column world, and could do well with a little
> >     bit of added mbrtowc() and wcwidth() logic to get this right.
> > 
> >     http://x-lt.richard.eu.org/me/rch/ll.html#bash
> >     http://kki.net.pl/qrczak/bash-2.02-utf8.patch.gz
> > 
> >     Is this already on its way into the next bash release?
> 
> Ooh, nice.  I was not previously aware of this.

Looking further at this, it seems that it assumes wcwidth()==1.

Does the original author of the patch have any plans or ideas on how this
could be fixed?

>From a look at the code, I'd say that this patch was done in a very
low-pain way, with only changes in a few places, whereas a more complete
patch, would entail lots more damage...

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Robert Brady
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