Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: doc formats

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:21:03PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>     Thomas> One interesting question is how to adapt the technique to
>     Thomas> other scripts besides ASCII.
> 
> Every kanji counts for two columns, anybody?  Or should it be three in
> UTF-8, with latin-1 getting 2?  ;-)

What about the zenkaku characters? Those are 'obviously' one
character, occupying two character cells, and taking three bytes >:)

Systems which rely on interpreting the 'width' of characters might not
intrinsically be doomed to insanity and madness, but they sure look
like it.

-- 
Andrew Suffield

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