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Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]
- From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, newlib at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 10:56:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]
- References: <20090512165404.GW21324@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60905120956n5521929bm69586f5e6325a994@mail.gmail.com> <20090512173153.GY21324@calimero.vinschen.de> <3f0ad08d0905140858j17c7b374paa649f18ef18178d@mail.gmail.com> <200905201652.n4KGqYGm000509@mail.bln1.bf.nsn-intra.net> <200906051625.n55GP6t3028411@mail.bln1.bf.nsn-intra.net> <20090606093102.GJ23519@calimero.vinschen.de>
> <nit-picking>
> Thomas, couldn't you have discussed this in the two weeks I was on
> vacation? ÂWhy did you wait until I implemented the language-based
> approach?
> </nit-picking>
Sorry, that's largely my fault. Among a bunch of other MinTTY issues
we were privately discussing various more or less mad schemes to
communicate the ambiguous width between terminal and application and
so it took a while for us to realise that a locale-based scheme really
is the best approach.
Andy
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