Re: bug in innwstr? (ncursesw-5.2-20020928)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 07:43:32PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to add wide-char support to tin and have some problems with
> some chars from far east.
...
> ("Before" is the string wrote to the display and "After" is the string
> returned from a screen_contents call at the end of center_line).
> Here also you can see the additional spaces.
> 
> Is this a bug in innwstr?

It seems so.  After poking around and fixing unrelated minor issues, I can see
that what is happening is that these characters are double-width (occupy two
cells).  innwstr() should be smart enough to eat the gaps that are placed by
addch.  I'll make a fix for that.

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