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On Jun 19 13:02, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Despite IWAMURO Motonori's withdrawal, I think symmetry would be the 
> > right approach to take. The major aspect is how to reflect the actual 
> > behaviour of existing terminal environments. ...
> 
> > ...
> > The "locale interface" (syntax and semantics of LC_* strings) is defined 
> > in a modular way and so the implementations should be - let them fix it.
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > What do you think, how big will be the acceptance of this approach
> > outside of newlib/Cygwin?
> 
> I have no idea about the acceptance of the whole concept, especially 
> (as I had warned) about changing the width of the CJK locales 
> WITHOUT modifier as IWAMURO Motonori insisted.
> But I guess a general solution of the width issue will be more 
> appreciated than one that handles only the CJK locales.

Well, if your proposal will be accepted by other projects, we can easily
extend our own implementation without changing existing functionality.


Corinna

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