From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: count glyphs in multibyte strings
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:53:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003260953.o2Q9rwAq007323@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100326010259.GA68432@redoubt.spodhuis.org>
Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2010-03-25 at 21:35 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > I noticed we were missing this capability; not sure how useful it is in
> > practice, but it was straightforward to add.
> >
> > You might want to check my terminology and assumptions about the way
> > Unicode works aren't gibberish.
>
> What about -1 being returned from wcwidth() for non-printable
> characters? Looks like this is an existing issue.
Yes, it would make a mess of the existing code although the new capability
would handle it better. I'm not sure whether the right answer is 1 or 0,
but it's not -1.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 21:35 Peter Stephenson
2010-03-26 1:02 ` Phil Pennock
2010-03-26 9:53 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2010-03-26 20:50 ` Peter Stephenson
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