extend ncwidth to automatically survey a terminal+font+libc #1904
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haileris
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Now that we've added code to
ncwidth
to get true length of glyphs using cursor location reports, we ought add a mode which sweeps through all of Unicode, and makes a note of which, if any, glyphs occupy more or less space thanwcswidth()
would lead one to believe.I'm not certain what good this will do, but it would be interesting to see the results.
At that point, it might make sense to make
ncwidth
a tool we install, or perhaps fold it intonotcurses-info
. I'm thinking the latter might be the better idea.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: