Re: Thai/Devanagari in GNOME Terminal

[Robert Brady <robert suse co uk>]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Ralph Giles wrote:

> For example, consider the following table. Forgive the english--I'm not
> familiar with thai script.
> 
> -1-    -2-
> brown  fox
> gray   cat
> yellow partridge
> 
> If we imagine writing this with zero-width vowels we get:
> 
> -1-    -2-
> brwn  fx
> gry   ct
> yllw prtrdg
> 
> The columns no longer align. If we apply the two-space compensation
> trigger:
> 
> -1-    -2-
> brwn   fx
> gry    ct
> yllow prtrdg
> 
> Except for the case where only a single space separates the columns, the
> spacing is correct.
> 
> Sorry for the pedantry. Constructing examples helps me understand...

This is highly icky.  The correct solution is to honour wcwidth() and
wcswidth().

-- 
Robert