On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:15 PM, 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. <...>
It's better than nothing, but I guess Xft could offer much better advice with XftTextExtents*.