On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:16:29AM +0800, Abel Cheung wrote:
> On 4/17/07, Rich Felker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >What is the output of:
> >echo -e '日本語\b\bhello'
>
> Wait. Quick question: how much should '\b' backstep when wide characters are
> encountered?
>
> - a whole wide character?
> - a
Egmont Koblinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:16:29AM +0800, Abel Cheung wrote:
>
>> Wait. Quick question: how much should '\b' backstep when wide characters are
>> encountered?
>
> It should move the cursor one single-width cell to the left. It has already
> been discu
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:16:29AM +0800, Abel Cheung wrote:
> Wait. Quick question: how much should '\b' backstep when wide characters are
> encountered?
It should move the cursor one single-width cell to the left. It has already
been discussed on this list, see here:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/li
On 4/17/07, Rich Felker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is the output of:
echo -e '日本語\b\bhello'
Wait. Quick question: how much should '\b' backstep when wide characters are
encountered?
- a whole wide character?
- a single byte?
- a half of wide character?
Which is considered 'correct'?
Abe
Dnia 17-04-2007, wto o godzinie 10:58 -0400, Rich Felker napisał(a):
> What is the output of:
> echo -e '日本語\b\bhello'
>
> It should be: “日本hello” and not “日hello”.
“日本hello” on gnome-terminal, konsole, xterm, and urxvt.
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:08:44AM +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:13:07PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>
> > Konsole and Xfce terminal: no support for nonspacing characters;
> > unsure about whether cjk wide characters are right.
>
> CJK is fine in them AFAIK.
What is t
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 05:13:07PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> Konsole and Xfce terminal: no support for nonspacing characters;
> unsure about whether cjk wide characters are right.
CJK is fine in them AFAIK.
> Gnome Terminal: I assume it's the same since Xfce uses the same
> widget. Please corr
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:04:32AM +0800, Abel Cheung wrote:
> >This is only an issue on character-cell devices which use wcwidth.
>
> I'm exactly talking about those apps, like terminals.
Given how utterly abysmal current terminals' Unicode support is, this
seems like a relatively minor issue. I
