Re: Point & Click with Atom

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

>> ¹ I'm not sure of the distinction between Character and Column in the
>>   textedit string. Perhaps it's used by spreadsheets or something.
>
> There exist 'wide characters', for example CJKV ideographs, which use
> two columns per character on the terminal.

I am not sure "character" and "column" is an accurate description.  From
what I seem to remember (but I'd have to look it up), the numbers are a
byte offset and a UTF-8 character position.  The former may be 0-based.
I don't think the latter takes anything like wide characters or tabs or
combining characters into account.

-- 
David Kastrup