Le 25 août 2011 à 15:35, Chet Ramey a écrit : >> >> Le 25 août 2011 à 14:17, Chet Ramey a écrit : >> >>>> so, wcwidth is apple's responsibility, then no libre-software developer >>>> can do anything, >>>> Am I right ? >>> >>> To a certain extent, yes. wcwidth is a libc function, and it has a bug >>> on Mac OS X. >> >> Well, libc is a part of linux, isn't it ? > > Sure, Linux has a libc, but Mac OS X isn't Linux. > >> Does that mean that it is a part of Darwin, not of proprietary layers of Mac >> OS X ? > > Yes, I'm sure that part of the C library is part of Darwin. It's > theoretically > possible to fix it and send the fix back to Apple. What they do with that fix > is their business, of course.
thank you for explanations :-) > >> (How can I know when it will be available ?) > > I can put you in the testing pool, if you'd like. no thank you, because i use MacPorts to install all unix tools i need, and i don't know how to insert a testing stuff in MacPorts mechanism on the other hand, if there is a way for bash to not display special characters on the interactive line, i suppose it can be useful to know how to do that in many cases, for example if i switch on a new platform, waiting for making special characters to be displayed correctly (Is it correct english enough ?) -- Téléassistance / Télémaintenance (adresse temporaire) http://biocer.fr/invites/thomas-de-contes/
