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Re: iswprint() and wcwidth() don't work properly on some platforms with


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: iswprint() and wcwidth() don't work properly on some platforms with certain unicodes
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:00:41 -0700
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Simon Kobyda wrote:
Hello. It seems that functions gnulib's functions iswprint() and
wcwidth() return different results on different platforms.

Surely this is an issue of the platform's locales, not of Gnulib itself. Older platforms won't recognize newer characters, and some locales are simply buggy. It'd be a bit much to expect Gnulib to carry around its own locale data.



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