Ross Ridge wrote: > In general it's impossible to know how many display positions some > random Unicode character might use. For example, Chinese characters > normally take two display positions, but the terminal your using might > not support them and display a single width replacement character. > Hopefully, you're limitted in the character set you actually need to > support and the terminals that your applicaiton will be using.
I'm not so lucky -- I'm writing a console UI library (Urwid) that anyone could use, and I'm trying to support as many encodings and terminals as possible. I hope that the different terminal behaviors can be enumerated so that the console interface will degrade gracefully with less capable terminals. The mined_2000 unicode text editor is a program that does this by detecting the terminal's behavior on startup. I'll probably take a similar approach. Ian Ward -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
