On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:12:23PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Since "wide character support" has come to mean more than 16-bits, it'll
> > take a bit of work to implement.
>
> It should only mean real work if the system libraries are not
> supporting the wide char stream and string functions. With glibc 2.2
> (which also has wcwidth and wcswidth) it should be easy. Worthwhile
> concentrating on this I think.
Not exactly - the curses library stores character+attributes in a single
integer (nominally 32-bits). That would have to be changed to accommodate
wider characters than 16 bits (or else the 16-bits would be a mapping).
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