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Re: Combining characters and MacOSX

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Combining characters and MacOSX
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:02:20 +0200
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On 2008-04-19 00:52:19 +0900, Jun T. wrote:
> Is it possible to include a working version of wcwidth()
> in the zsh source tree and use it if the system's wcwidth()
> is broken?

If you replace the whole wcwidth() function, make sure that it doesn't
become inconsistant with the other wc functions. For instance, the LRM
behavior is system-dependent:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457634#13

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- Combining characters and MacOSX
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