[Bug libc/4335] EastAsianAmbiguous character width is always 1 in UTF-8 locale

[bruno at clisp dot org]

------- Additional Comments From bruno at clisp dot org  2007-06-02 23:43 -------
The "character width" is mostly useful when dealing with cell-based
terminal emulators.

IMO it makes no sense to make such a change in glibc (i.e. to create an
alternative charmap UTF-8-CJK and to build locales like ja_JP.UTF-8 against
it) in isolation. What needs to be considered is the majority of the terminal
emulators; see for example the list at
  http://packages.debian.org/stable/virtual/x-terminal-emulator
If you change the most important among these terminal emulators to choose
their font configuration according to the locale, in such a way that in CJK
locales the Ambiguous Width characters have width 2, and in other locales they
have width 1, _then_ IMO the change makes also sense in glibc.


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