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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:20:54 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "@cjknarrow" modifier (was Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth  	failing configure tests])
From: IWAMURO Motonori <deenheart@gmail.com>
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OK. I withdraw my proposal.

2009/6/16 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> On Jun 15 23:35, IWAMURO Motonori wrote:
>> 2009/6/15 Corinna Vinschen:
>> > If everybody agrees to this suggestion, here's the patch.
>>
>> Is the name of modifier prefix "cjk-" good? It influences not CJK
>> characters but a part of symbols and European characters.
>> Please refer to Andy's opinion:
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg00240.html
>>
>> It personally proposes "ambinarrow" because the switch of Vim is "ambiwi=
dth".
>
> I think "cjk" in the name is the right choice. =A0There are no ambiguous
> characters in western languages (well, probably there are, but the
> ambiguity is not on the level of character widths). =A0This is a problem
> which only has a meaning in these so called CJK languages. =A0It makes
> sense to me to use this in the modifier name.
>
>> And, I don't think that it is symmetrical. How about the following
>> patch? (I have not changed the name of modifier prefix)
>
> I'm not convinced that we need symmetry. =A0It looks like a nice idea for
> Cygwin or newlib, given that the setlocale language string is checked
> and picked to pieces hardcoded in the loadlocale function.
>
> However, besides of being unnecessary, other systems like Linux or BSD
> use the language string as directory name relative to the
> /usr/share/locale directory. =A0If this gets ever used on non-Cygwin
> systems, the symmetry (which has no precedent in the locale arena) would
> require these systems to create yet another subdirectory or symlink for
> the same purpose. =A0Even worse, if you propose that @cjkwide is a valid
> modifier for *any* language, you would make the whole mechanism on
> non-newlib based systems more complicated for no apparent reason.
>
>
> Corinna
>
> --
> Corinna Vinschen =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Please, send mails re=
garding Cygwin to
> Cygwin Project Co-Leader =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Red Hat
>


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