bug#33775: fold: counting multi-byte utf-8 sequences as separate columns

2018-12-22 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 33775 wishlist retitle 33775 multibyte: fold: multi-byte sequences as separate columns stop Hello, On 2018-12-16 6:32 p.m., Michael Siegel wrote: I've just discovered an odd behavior of `fold' while trying to wrap a piece of text containing phonetic characters. Take the following line

bug#33775: fold: counting multi-byte utf-8 sequences as separate columns

2018-12-16 Thread Michael Siegel
Hello, I've just discovered an odd behavior of `fold' while trying to wrap a piece of text containing phonetic characters. Take the following line, for example: Tcl (pronounced "tickle" or tee cee ell /ˈtiː siː ɛl/) is a high-level, It is 71 characters long. Still, running echo "Tcl (pronounce