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Re: [groff] Accented Cyrillic characters


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [groff] Accented Cyrillic characters
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 16:29:32 +0200 (CEST)

> There appears to be specific code in groff to explicitly *BREAK* the
> return value of wcwidth(3).  Actually, egregious mishandling of
> wcwidth(3) is a quite common error in application programs, so groff
> is certainly not alone here.

Well... :-)

> I'm not familiar with groff internals either (except for the manual
> page macroset implementations), but i had a quick look and instantly
> identified at least three places where wcwidth(3) handling is
> obviously broken, see the patch below.  That patch is *NOT* intended
> for commit, but merely for giving others some hints in which areas
> to look.

Thanks.  Unfortunately, I don't have time to delve into the code,
sorry.


    Werner



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