Tom Christiansen <tchr...@perl.com> added the comment: >Martin v. L=C3=B6wis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
>> Martin, I think you meant to write "if w =3D=3D 'A':". >> Some very common characters have ambiguous widths though (e.g. the Greek = >alphabet), so you can't just raise an error for them. >That's precisely why I don't think this should be in the library, but >in the application. Application developers who need that also need >to concern themselves with the border cases, and decide on how >they need to resolve them. The column-width of a string is not an application issue. It is well-defined by Unicode. Again, please see how we've done it in Perl, where tr11 is fully implemented. The columns() method from Unicode::GCString always gives the right answer per the Standard for any string, even what you are calling ambiguous ones. This is not an applications issue -- at all. --tom ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12568> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
