On 25 February 2011 11:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 25 09:05, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> 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. > > Hmm, I don't think that's the right thing to do. How's the OS version > of wcwidht supposed to know what the wcwidth function is used for? > After all, the application does *not* specify that it calls wcwidth > to get the size of a character for a specifc purpose. How's the function > to know that the character is supposed to be printed to the current tty? > What if the application has open handles to more than one tty?
I agree. Also, I'd be surprised if character width in the console was actually constant across different locales, fonts, and Windows versions. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
