| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode grapheme clusters |
| Date: | 2023-01-21 18:18:25 |
| Message-ID: | Y8wsca5tCeR5AnZJ@momjian.us |
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 01:17:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > I just checked if wcswidth() would honor graphene clusters, though
> > wcwidth() does not, but it seems wcswidth() treats characters just like
> > wcwidth():
>
> Well, that's at least potentially fixable within libc, while wcwidth
> clearly can never do this right.
>
> Probably our long-term answer is to avoid depending on wcwidth
> and use wcswidth instead. But it's hard to get excited about
> doing the legwork for that until popular libc implementations
> get it right.
Agreed.
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