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Re: wcwidth and locale files?
- To: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
- Subject: Re: wcwidth and locale files?
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 17 Jul 2000 14:07:28 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <14707.14660.899665.106789@honolulu.ilog.fr>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:
> As I see it, the character width information for wcwidth must be
> specified in the character set file (ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 etc). I would
> prefer to have it in the locale files for the following reasons:
There are character sets where the characters have different sizes
from those in other character sets. The harmap file is the right
place.
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