On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 3:15 AM, dequis <d...@dxzone.com.ar> wrote: > > My patch: > > Just wcwidth(...) -> abs(wcwidth(...)) > > In other words: if wcwidth returns -1, interpret that as a column > width of 1. It's a bit dirty and lazy, but it works wonderfully for > most characters. > > I'm not sure what the "correct" solution would be, but it's definitely > not something as simple as this - would mean fixing the libc to > support unicode up to 7.0, or implementing our own version of it. > > Opinions? >
I think your fall-back workaround makes alot of sense until glibc mans up and implements it (the correct solution). I have tested it locally with glibc and musl libc, interestingly musl knows the correct character width. Kind regards, Hiltjo
