Re: Combining characters and MacOSX

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

"Jun T." wrote:
> Since all the filenames are decomposed in MacOSX, I guess
> many Mac users (including me) have been waiting for the
> combining character support eagerly.
> 
> But the recent "combining character patch" does not work
> on MacOSX, just because wcwidth() on MacOSX is broken.
>
> Is it possible to include a working version of wcwidth()
> in the zsh source tree and use it if the system's wcwidth()
> is broken?
> For example, a version written by Markus Kuhn can be found in:
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c

Yes, that should be usable.  Presumably it shouldn't be too difficult to
craft a configure test for whether the system's wcwidth() returns
something sensible on a standard zero-width character.

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