Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people

[hsaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Hironori Sakamoto)]

Hi,

> From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> The people who use ISO 8859 also use or used CP437 (the original IBM
> PC character set) is a widely used coded character set with a

I know some CodePage are used on PC, but why did not xterm
support CP437 if its characters are widely used and necessary ?

Ok, let's stop saying about which we don't know well.
Let's listen to the opinion of native users.

> Suggestion:
> Call the locale with the normal wcwidth behaviour
>   ja.UTF-8
> and the traditional one (EUC backwards compatibility)
>   ja.UTF-8@oldwidth

What is "normal" ?
What "normal" means for Japanese is different from yours.

This is not related with EUC-JP. This is not old or traditional.
The normal-width glyphs are not suitable for Japanese document.
The current wcwidth behaviour of xterm for Japanese locale is
a BUG (at least for me).
First, I wish xterm-152-27 is commited to the original xterm.

Thanks,
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Hironori SAKAMOTO <hsaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/

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