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Re: [PATCH] git-blame: Make the output human readable

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Mar 8, 2006, 18:04 UTC
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> And this won't work, unless you also add that wcwidth() implementation
> to git.
That was the general idea.  It is freely usable.
> The problem is that the wchar_t encoding is not specified anywhere -
> glibc uses Unicode for it, but other systems can use whatever they want
> (even locale-dependent).

Why is that a problem? None of the code mentioned even uses wchar_t. The code I wrote converts from UTF-8 to straight Unicode, and that's what Markus Kuhn's wcwidth() expects as an argument.

At no time do we ask the compiler for its opinion on the subject.
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