Bug#471021: locales: EastAsianAmbiguous character width is always 1 in UTF-8

[d+deb@vdr.jp]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:53:21PM +0900, Masanori Goto wrote:
> >> Overall, we have no way to expand wcwidth() correctly and rightly,
> >> so I think each application should handle the actual font size of characters
> >> instead of using wcwidth().

> > But each application implements each approach now
> > For example, own one, various version of Markus Kuhn's wcwidth.
> > In my layman's idea, could libc offer common method for it?

> It'd be great that you propose the good way to do so alternatively.

I'm afraid that I just wish irresponsibly
and I cannot write code matching with glibc's quality.
If possible, could you please take on this issue?
But I will cooperate to solve it as best I can.

Regards,
	dai
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