Grapheme clusters and east asian width
Eli Zaretskii
eliz at gnu.org
Thu Sep 17 11:24:02 CDT 2015
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:51:03 +0100
> From: Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli at erratique.ch>
> Cc: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com>, unicode at unicode.org
>
> > > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:27:31 +0100
> > > From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com (mailto:richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com)>
> > >
> > > The best estimator is probably the POSIX function wcswidth().
> > Only on glibc-based systems, I'm quite sure.
>
> Is there a formal definition of the algorithm used ? This [1] is not very helpful.
They just use a table of values, AFAIK.
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