Jim Meyering wrote:
> Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I may be misinterpreting your patch, but it seems to me that
>> decrementing count for zero-width characters could potentially lead to
>> confusion. Not all zero-width characters are combining characters, right?
>
> It looks ok to me, since there's an unconditional increment
>
> chars++;
>
> about 25 lines above, so the decrement would just undo that.
Right, I guess my question is more about the semantics of `wc -m'.
Should stand-alone zero-width characters such as the zero-width space be
counted?
The attached (UTF-8) file contains 3 characters according to HEAD, but
only two with the patch.
Bo
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