Bug#847479: xterm: display issue with double-width character like ? on the last column via ncurses
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Vincent Lefevre" <vincent@vinc17.net>
| To: dickey@his.com, 847479@bugs.debian.org
| Sent: Sunday, May 7, 2017 12:56:32 PM
| Subject: Bug#847479: xterm: display issue with double-width character like ? on the last column via ncurses
|
| On 2017-05-07 10:53:24 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
| > Attaching a script, for discussion. I don't see the problem, but
| > noticed
| > that the character is "new", and for instance if you were running
| > xterm
| > remotely so that the wcwidth wasn't known then you could get odd
| > results.
|
| I can't reproduce the problem with your script. But it is
| reproducible
| with Mutt. Maybe a problem that occurs only when margins are used.
| I don't know what ncurses does exactly...
|
| Everything is local on the machine.
a typescript (from "script") helps.
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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