Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:02:22 +0200 (CEST)
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From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "@cjknarrow" modifier (was Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests])
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I wrote:
> Despite IWAMURO Motonori's withdrawal, I think symmetry would be the 
> right approach to take. The major aspect is how to reflect the actual 
> behaviour of existing terminal environments. ...

> ...
> The "locale interface" (syntax and semantics of LC_* strings) is defined 
> in a modular way and so the implementations should be - let them fix it.

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> What do you think, how big will be the acceptance of this approach
> outside of newlib/Cygwin?

I have no idea about the acceptance of the whole concept, especially 
(as I had warned) about changing the width of the CJK locales 
WITHOUT modifier as IWAMURO Motonori insisted.
But I guess a general solution of the width issue will be more 
appreciated than one that handles only the CJK locales.

Thomas

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