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Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin


Andy Koppe wrote:
>On 24 February 2011 11:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 24 11:56, Bengt Larsson wrote:
>>> I don't use surrogates. I only use UTF-8 and UTF-32.
>
>... which of course means that you don't support anything but UTF-8
>and ASCII locales. Can't argue with that, but you might want to use
>nl_langinfo(CODESET) to check and warn if something else is used.

Utf-8 and a number of 8-bit charsets, actually. I'm getting rather
annoyed that people judge the program without looking at it. And it does
use nl_langinfo(CODESET).

>>>  But using cygwin's
>>> wcwidth may be worth thinking about. I suppose it will be consistent
>>> with mintty that way; otherwise not?
>>
>> Yes, I think Andy uses the system functions as well.
>
>Yep, as should any other terminal emulator.

I have fixed it to use Cygwin's wcswidth.

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