Re: help builtin generates unaligned results for multicolumn widechars.

[Chet Ramey]

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On 8/22/15 9:59 AM, Mingye Wang (Arthur2e5) wrote:
> Version: <= 4.4-alpha
> 
> In bash's `help.def' builtin, wdispcolumn() is used to display `help'
> columns. It terminates the string at wcstr[width - 1], with a comment
> that assmues each wide character to be exactly one column wide.
> 
> This works fine with most languages where widechars are, actually, one
> column wide. But with East Asian languages, more specifically Chinese,
> Japanese & Korean, it would produce terrible results.
> 
> Maybe bash should consult wcswidth(wcstr+1,displen), or get the `len' in
> wcsnwidth() changed to some additional int* argument to store it, and
> consider the the difference between the real width and displen.

Thanks.  I made some changes along these lines that will be in the next
push to the devel branch.

Chet
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