On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:39:49PM +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 02:18:03PM -0800, Robert Ransom wrote: > > On 12/5/14, Brandon Mulcahy <bran...@jangler.info> wrote: > > > -It does not handle non-ASCII UTF-8 runes > > > -or TAB characters correctly. > > > +It does not handle TAB characters correctly. > > > > utflen returns the number of runes in a string, not the number of > > character cells that will be used to display it on a terminal. > > Hm... yes.
That's true. Perhaps the man page could say something like: "It assumes a single-cell glyph for each character". The deficiency isn't unique to the treatment of UTF-8.
