Re: Grapheme clusters and east asian width

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz_at_gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:24:02 +0300

> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:51:03 +0100
> From: Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli_at_erratique.ch>
> Cc: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>, unicode_at_unicode.org
>
> > > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:27:31 +0100
> > > From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com (mailto:richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com)>
> > >
> > > The best estimator is probably the POSIX function wcswidth().
> > Only on glibc-based systems, I'm quite sure.
>
> Is there a formal definition of the algorithm used ? This [1] is not very helpful.

They just use a table of values, AFAIK.
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