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Re: Doublewidth EM DASH for unhappy English people

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Subject: Re: Doublewidth EM DASH for unhappy English people
From: Robert Brady <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:42:50 +0100 (BST)
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Bram Moolenaar wrote:

> I'm confused.  I thought that the width of a Unicode character was fixed.

Not quite.

The return value of libc's wcwidth() is locale-dependant, and should be
right for the terminal - as long as you honour this, noone has cause to
complain.

-- 
Robert Brady
robert@xxxxxxxxxx

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