From: enh <enh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [REPOST] ksh: utf8 full width character support for emacs.c
To: Christian Schulte <cs@schulte.it>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 08:49:50 -0400

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM Christian Schulte <cs@schulte.it> wrote:
>
> On 3/31/25 23:57, enh wrote:
> [..snip..]
> > 2. we should avoid luring people into the equivalent of "the bash
> > script trap" where there's enough support for you to get started, but
> > then you suddenly realize your existing solution is part of the
> > problem. better to just make it clear from the beginning that -- if
> > you're serious about i18n/l10n -- you wanted java or icu4c.
>
> Sorry for disturbing. Java does not solve this in any way.
>
> <https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/24/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/Character.html>

i was speaking more generally, but if by "this" you just meant
"iterating through user-perceived characters", see
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase//21/docs/api/java.base/java/text/BreakIterator.html#getCharacterInstance()

> --
> Christian
>