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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 10:56:32 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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> <nit-picking>
> Thomas, couldn't you have discussed this in the two weeks I was on
> vacation? =C2=A0Why did you wait until I implemented the language-based
> approach?
> </nit-picking>

Sorry, that's largely my fault. Among a bunch of other MinTTY issues
we were privately discussing various more or less mad schemes to
communicate the ambiguous width between terminal and application and
so it took a while for us to realise that a locale-based scheme really
is the best approach.

Andy

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