Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi David,

> > The functionality sounds OK, though it needs to know `Ｆoo' is
> > 2+1+1; there's no mention of wider-than-one runes above AFAICS.
> 
>     $ fmttest -outsize 2 -raw -format '%{text}' 'Ｆo'
> 
> produces no output but
> 
>     $ fmttest -outsize 3 -raw -format '%{text}' 'Ｆo  | od -x
> 0000000 bcef 0aa6
> 
> does.

`Ｆ' being `ef bc a6' in UTF-8.

> Assuming the newline takes up one space, that is what we want, right?

Yes, I think so.

> > Also, is `width' the value of `tput cols' this time, or one less
> > again?
> 
> Currently, it looks like -outsize counts the newline as one, like
> -width.  If we don't want to change that, then we should call it
> something else.

That's what seems wrong.  fmttest(1) says "characters with zero width...
are not counted against this total".  Does linefeed, U+0A have zero
width?

Cheers, Ralph.