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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Unicode width data inconsistent/outdated
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170726095016.GA25666@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d3cb047-49f8-26a6-d816-387a71486e99@cygwin.com>

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On Jul 26 03:16, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2017-07-26 03:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jul 26 08:49, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> >> It would be good to keep wcwidth/wcswidth in sync with the installed
> >> Unicode data version (package unicode-ucd).
> >> Currently it seems to be hard-coded (in newlib/libc/string/wcwidth.c);
> >> it refers to Unicode 5.0 while installed Unicode data suggest 9.0 would
> >> be used.
> >> I can provide some scripts to generate the respective tables if desired.
> >> Thomas
> > 
> > If you can update the newlib files this way and send matching patches
> > to the newlib list, this would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thomas, I just updated unicode-ucd to 10.0 for this purpose.

Oh, and, btw, the comment in wcwidth.c isn't quite correct.  The
cwstate in newlib is on Unicode 5.2, see newlib/libc/ctype/towupper.c.


Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-26  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-26 14:23 Thomas Wolff
2017-07-26 14:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-07-26 17:03   ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-07-26 17:06     ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2017-07-27 17:09       ` Thomas Wolff
2017-07-29 15:23         ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-08-03 19:44           ` Thomas Wolff
2017-08-04 17:02             ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-08-05 19:06               ` Thomas Wolff
2017-08-05 20:24                 ` Brian Inglis
2017-08-05 20:53                   ` Thomas Wolff
2017-08-07  9:28                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-08-07 10:41                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-08-07 19:07                   ` Brian Inglis
2017-08-07 19:31                     ` Thomas Wolff
2017-08-07 21:29                       ` Brian Inglis
2017-08-08  0:29                         ` Thomas Wolff
2017-08-07 19:27                   ` Thomas Wolff
2017-08-08  8:22                     ` Corinna Vinschen

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