On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 02:32:36AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the attached excerpt, stripped down to almost the minimum to
> experience it, the combining characters in the “Zalgo” part seem
> to be considered as adding to the line width, therefore breaking
> too early:
>
>“Ȩ̶̛ņ̶̛Ơ̶̙U̶̡
>g̵̢H̷̳” Shikamaru entoned with fury. His were
>black pools that seemed to be dripping, melting.
>
>
>“ I am exacting my
>V̵̡e̷̢ņ̷̤G̴̨
>̺̠ȩ̴̣Ą̶̱N̶̛
>̀̓C̴̢E̴̡” Shikamaru, no, the
>shadows spoke.
>
> (this time in an 80c-wide xterm at Ian’s special request)
>
> I would expect (first line possibly justified with extra spaces):
agreed - (reviewing a patch for this would be interesting).
Lynx doesn't do anything with combining characters.
That's done only in ncurses (or slang)
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Thomas E. Dickey
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