Re: [PATCH 1/2] libgit.a: add some UTF-8 handling functions

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> If you do wrapped_text, I think you do not _want_ strlen (the
> >> definition to me of strlen is "number of characters in the
> >> string").  What you want is a function that returns the number
> >> of columns consumed when displayed on monospace terminal.
> >
> > To me, characters are the symbols occupying one "column" each. Bytes are 
> > the 8-bit thingies that you usually use to encode the characters.
> 
> I cannot tell from your reponse if you are very well aware of
> Asian "double-width" characters and your version of strlen()
> counts one such character as two, or if you are totally unaware
> about the issue and your function returns 1 for a string that
> consists of a single such character.
> 
> If the former, then the function is not strlen() anymore, and if
> the latter, then it is unusable for wrapping purposes.