On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 01:17:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I just checked if wcswidth() would honor graphene clusters, though
> > wcwidth() does not, but it seems wcswidth() treats characters just like
> > wcwidth():
>
> Well, that's at least potentially fixable within libc, while wcwidth
> clearly can never do this right.
>
> Probably our long-term answer is to avoid depending on wcwidth
> and use wcswidth instead. But it's hard to get excited about
> doing the legwork for that until popular libc implementations
> get it right.
Agreed.
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