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Re: multibyte backwarddeletechar

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: multibyte backwarddeletechar
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:57:02 -0400
Cc: "'Geoff Wing'" <gcw@xxxxxxx>, "'Zsh Hackers'" <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> I am not sure I follow it. What you actually have to do is
> 
> - on input: either get plain characters and convert them using btowc
> (that is O.K. as starting point) or read multibyte stream with mb*
> functions and convert them with mbtowc (that is needed as final result
> to be able to deal with UTF-8 encoding finally).
 
> - on output: use either wctob or wctomb.
> 
> Looks like you did exactly opposite :-)

Indeed.  I suppose I expected fgetwc to be smarter than it is.

wcwidth() seems to be a good answer to the ZLE line-width
determining problem.

References:
- Re: multibyte backwarddeletechar
  - From: Clint Adams
- RE: multibyte backwarddeletechar
  - From: Borsenkow Andrej

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