On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:46:45PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > How to determine width of characters. In C language and GNU libc, > wcwidth() works very well, including characters whose width changes > depending on locale (EastAsianAmbigious and exceptions). I don't > know how to invoke this function from Perl. If this cannot be > handled correctly, east Asian people will hate UTF-8-based Debconf. Why does any of debconf's perl code need to know the width of characters? Isn't it the responsibility of the individual debconf frontends to handle formatting & displaying of strings? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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