On 12/5/14, Brandon Mulcahy <bran...@jangler.info> wrote: > 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. > > True, but that deficiency isn't unique to the treatment of UTF-8.
It can't happen with non-control-character ASCII strings. > Perhaps it should say something like: "It assumes a single-cell glyph > for each character." How about: It assumes that each UTF-8 code point occupies one character cell, and thus mishandles TAB characters (among others). Robert Ransom
