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Re: wcwidth on OpenBSD 5.8


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: wcwidth on OpenBSD 5.8
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:33:29 +0100
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Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I was wondering about a more general check in the m4 file
> that verified all our internal values against the system wcwidth(),
> though perhaps that is too draconian and dependent on system
> fonts etc. rather than unicode standards?

Yes I think this would be too draconian. It would likely mean
that we override wcwidth on all systems which are not up-to-date
with the newest Unicode revision, that is, on all systems
that are not based on the newest glibc.

Bruno




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