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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Zsh-workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: UTF-8 support
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:13:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29376.1096974787@trentino.logica.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041004160858.GA4510@fargo>

David =?iso-8859-15?Q?G=F3mez?= wrote:

Seems my mail program needs some work too. :-)

> > stateful encodings. There are a few characters which are defined to
> > display as double width even in proportional fonts so keep that in mind.
> 
> In what scripts happens these characters?

Chinese and Korean I believe. If you want some examples, try looking at
some of the spam that gets sent to you. I've got some examples at the
moment if you want. We might have to be careful about putting any of
that in our test scripts if we don't want to offer our Chinese users
drugs, inkjets and larger members. :)

> Shouldn't mbrlen and company only be used when an UTF-8 locale is selected?

No. They'll do the right thing if other locale's are selected: mbrlen
will return 1 in a single byte locale.

Oliver


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-05 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-30  8:29 David Gómez
2004-09-30  9:24 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-10-01 18:41 ` David Gómez
2004-10-01 19:46   ` Oliver Kiddle
2004-10-04 16:08     ` David Gómez
2004-10-04 16:15       ` Clint Adams
2004-10-05 11:13       ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2004-10-04 16:20     ` Peter Stephenson
2004-10-05 11:01       ` Oliver Kiddle
2004-10-05 11:32         ` Peter Stephenson

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