[Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]
Andy Koppe
andy.koppe@gmail.com
Wed May 13 21:41:00 GMT 2009
> How should that work? The first half of the surrogate pair has not
> enough information to decide that. For instance, take the ranges
> 0x10A01, 0x10A03 }, { 0x10A05, 0x10A06 }. The information about the low
> 10 bits of the Unicode value is in the second half of the pair. From
> the first half you don't know if the char is perhaps the 0x10A04 value
> or one of the other. So you need both halves to make a decision.
You're right. I'd somehow overlooked the end of the combining[] array.
Andy
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