From: linux@horizon.com
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 18:04:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-blame: Make the output human readable
Message-ID: <20060308180422.27978.qmail@science.horizon.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060308173249.1faed1d7.vsu@altlinux.ru>

> 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.