2009/6/5 Thomas Wolff: > the locale syntax allows for an optional "modifier" which can be used to > specify deviations, e.g. > de_DE has charmap ISO-8859-1 > de...@euro has charmap ISO-8859-15 > uz_UZ has charmap ISO-8859-1 > uz...@cyrillic has charmap UTF-8 > aa_ER and aa...@saaho both have charmap UTF-8 (with some other > difference). > Thus you could define e.g. > ja_jp.ut...@cjk > or > ja_jp.ut...@cjkwidth > to indicate CJK width properties. I guess this is the most compliant way to > go.
This looks the right approach to me. However, to make the locale setting more convenient for CJK users, there could be modifiers for both widths. Without modifier, the CJK locales would default to "Ambiguous Wide", while everything else would default to "Ambiguous Narrow". In the time-honoured tradition of keeping Unix identifiers brief and obscure, I propose the modifiers should be "@aw" and "@an". Otherwise, how about "@ambigwide" and "@ambignarrow"? Calling it something like "cjkwide" has the problem that it gives the impression that the actual CJK ideographs are affected by this, whereas this really concerns things like line drawing characters and non-latin non-CJK letters. That confused me to start with anyway. Puzzled that this hasn't been solved in glibc years ago ... Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
