Bram Moolenaar writes: > Or is it that when the locale uses the utf-8 encoding, the rest of > the locale doesn't matter to wcwidth()? Yes. In POSIX, wcwidth can depend on the locale in any way. But in glibc, it depends only on the encoding used by the locale. Bruno - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/