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Author	poq
Recipients	Arfrever, Nicholas.Cole, ezio.melotti, inigoserna, loewis, poq, tchrist, vstinner, zeha
Date	2012-03-11.10:52:20
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Message-id	<1331463141.23.0.200342980125.issue12568@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Martin, I agree that wcswidth is incorrect with respect to Unicode. However I don't think that's relevant at all. Python should only try to match the behaviour of the terminal. Since terminals do slightly different things, trying to match them exactly - in all cases, on all systems - is virtually impossible. But AFAICT wcwidth should match the terminal behaviour on nearly all modern systems, so it makes sense to expose it.

Martin,

I agree that wcswidth is incorrect with respect to Unicode. However I don't think that's relevant at all. Python should only try to match the behaviour of the terminal.

Since terminals do slightly different things, trying to match them exactly - in all cases, on all systems - is virtually impossible. But AFAICT wcwidth should match the terminal behaviour on nearly all modern systems, so it makes sense to expose it.

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