Re: Indic scripts and wcwidth: comments?

[Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:29:34PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> Since I have no idea about Indic scripts, I won't and can't give a
> comment.  I just want to note that Emacs supports Devanagari with
> single, double, and triple width glyphs (IIRC); you may have a look
> how they've done it -- from a technical point, not from an encoding
> point.

There is a bug (that I have not investigated) in the use of
"emacs -nw" on a uxterm. When symbols occur on the line
of which no glyph is available, then emacs and uxterm have different
ideas about the width of displayed strings, and corruption results.

Andries

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