Christoph Lohmann dixit: >Which applications do you use that handle double-width as you expect them?
mksh and jupp (though I don’t use st). > Do these applications use the double-width for the layout? It’s possible to use Unicode characters, halfwidth or fullwidth, to draw nice boxen in either. >If double-width characters would be drawn to fit the standard cell size of the >terminal (drawing them in half the font size) would this suffice your need? Absolutely not. You need to distinguish by wcwidth() on the first character whether a given glyph (including the combining characters following it) fits into a halfwidth character cell or into a fullwidth character cell, which is exactly the width of two adjacent halfwidth character cells. Treating fullwidth as halfwidth, or the other way around, will not work. >Naming the applications would be important so I can test st to their >compatibility. Hrm, a shell and a text editor aren’t that good examples then… and I don’t have any good mixed example textfiles at hand. Sorry. But just this might be a PoC: ┌──┤ U+00A9 ├──────┐ │ │ │ ䷀䷀䷀䷀䷀ │ │ ䷀ ䷀ │ │ ䷀ ䷀䷀ ䷀ │ │ ䷀ ䷀ ䷀ │ │ ䷀ ䷀ ䷀ │ │ ䷀ ䷀䷀ ䷀ │ │ ䷀ ䷀ │ │ ䷀䷀䷀䷀䷀ │ └──────────────────┘ I’m writing textfiles like that pretty often, and I use the creative heaven and fullwidth space in my own font editing tools (mksh script to convert between that and BDF, while doing the actual editing in a text editor and/or with ed and shell scripts). bye, //mirabilos -- FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh
