Re: terminal status [Re: wcwidth and locale]

[Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:08:44AM +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:13:07PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > Konsole and Xfce terminal: no support for nonspacing characters;
> > unsure about whether cjk wide characters are right.
> 
> CJK is fine in them AFAIK.

What is the output of:
echo -e '日本語\b\bhello'

It should be: “日本hello” and not “日hello”. I’m not sure which it
does. Also try with explicit cursor positioning escapes.

(I’d appreciate it if you could try and report since I no longer have
them installed and forgot to check this while I did.)

Rich

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