Am 24.02.2011 09:56, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
When on Cygwin, you might better use Cygwin's(*) wcwidth function. It's
based on the same code from Markus Kuhn, but it interacts with the
setlocale function to make sure that the width returned for the CJK
ambiguous width characters makes sense in the given locale. Plus, it
supports a Cygwin-specific locale modifier '@cjknarrow' which allows the
user to modify this behaviour. When using your own wcwidth, you're
giving up on this feature.
On the other hand, not specific for cygwin, the wcwidth/wcswidht
functions are in general based on installed locale data.
But you can never know whether the terminal you are running in actually
uses those data.
On a Linux system, you may encounter a wide range of different
environments, for example:
rxvt based on system locale which is often based on an outdated locale
data installation (e.g. Unicode 3)
xterm with a hard-coded wcwidth
mlterm with some tweaks
remote operation (rlogin/ssh to/from other system) with inconsistent
locale data base
...
For that reason, my editor mined implements an auto-detection of actual
terminal width data (checking Unicode version and a number of
terminal-specific odds).
For cygwin, it might be useful (although not standard) for wcwidth to
consider whether it's running in a cygwin console or a terminal, so e.g.
wcwidth (0x8080) should return 2 in mintty but 1 in a cygwin console.
Erik Blake wrote:
And if you don't mind [L]GPL licensing, gnulib provides a source code
replacement that guarantees wide character support on all modern porting
platforms (particularly useful for mingw, which is sorely lacking on
this front); and is currently working on introducing a wwchar_t type
that is guaranteed to be UTF-32 even on cygwin (this is how coreutils
gets wide character support for things like wc). Portions of that
gnulib code are incorporated into libunistring. But from the sounds of
your program's license, I'm not sure you can take advantage of gnulib or
libunistring.
Maybe I should check whether my auto-detection code could be contributed
to that project...
Thomas
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