* Single-width display option
@ 2020-02-17 18:50 Thomas Wolff
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From: Thomas Wolff @ 2020-02-17 18:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I have implemented a single-width display option for mintty
(https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/964).
With this feature enabled, CJK characters are rendered single-width.
While this may appear alien for terminal users who are used to the
established dual-width paradigm, some people may in fact prefer it, as
advocated and visually motivated in
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/issues/9#note_406682.
In order to support locale-consistent width handling with this option,
I'm proposing another locale modifier "@cjksingle" which triggers this
behaviour for the wcwidth/wcswidth API. I've prepared a patch which I'll
send to the newlib list.
Thomas
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