[PATCH] Add "@cjknarrow" modifier (was Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests])
Thomas Wolff
towo@towo.net
Fri Jun 19 14:45:00 GMT 2009
I wrote:
> Despite IWAMURO Motonori's withdrawal, I think symmetry would be the
> right approach to take. The major aspect is how to reflect the actual
> behaviour of existing terminal environments. ...
> ...
> The "locale interface" (syntax and semantics of LC_* strings) is defined
> in a modular way and so the implementations should be - let them fix it.
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> What do you think, how big will be the acceptance of this approach
> outside of newlib/Cygwin?
I have no idea about the acceptance of the whole concept, especially
(as I had warned) about changing the width of the CJK locales
WITHOUT modifier as IWAMURO Motonori insisted.
But I guess a general solution of the width issue will be more
appreciated than one that handles only the CJK locales.
Thomas
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