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[Bug localedata/22073] charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth of U+00AD (soft hyphen): 0 or 1 ?
- From: "tg at mirbsd dot de" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:41:18 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/22073] charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth of U+00AD (soft hyphen): 0 or 1 ?
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- References: <bug-22073-716@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22073
--- Comment #7 from Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd dot de> ---
(In reply to Mike Frysinger from comment #5)
> i think that answers the question here: in our UTF-8 charmaps, we should
> mark U+00AD as 0, but in our ISO 8859-1 (and other applicable legacy)
> charmaps, we should mark it as 1.
That could get ugly, assume you have an application displaying latin1 data on a
UTF-8 terminal (GNU screen comes to mind, or luit from XFree86®). Those map
0xAD to U+00AD not U+002D…
Given that mfabian as localedata maintainer of sorts has already accepted the
change, does it really still be needed to be discussed? (The copyright form
arrived last night btw, I’m sending it back to the FSF ASAP.)
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