Re: [groff] Accented Cyrillic characters

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Werner LEMBERG wrote in <address@hidden>:
 |> 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.

Well if i recall the situation then that GNU library which is now
linked into the build provides a function that actually offers
wcwidth() specifically for UTF-8, which is what groff would need.
Even if setlocale() has never been called that is, or called with
"C".  I have reported this in 2014 i think, unfortunately i still
have no running fork.

--steffen
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