Re: bidi support for xterm

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Mon Aug 16 1999 - 18:51:58 EDT


Markus Kuhn wrote:

>
> 2) ls must know that combining characters do not occupy their own
> character cell

Well, more correctly, that *non-spacing* characters do not. Those
are a subset of all combining characters in Unicode--many of which
are actually spacing characters.

>
> 3) ls must know that characters with the East Asian Wide of FullWidth
> property (see TR #7) occupy two character cells.

That's TR #11, not TR #7.

--Ken



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