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>Martin v. L=C3=B6wis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
>> I would encourage you to look at the Perl CPAN module Unicode::LineBreak,
>> which fully implements tr11.
>Thanks for the pointer!
>> If you'd like, I can show you a program that uses these, a rewrite the
>> standard Unix fmt(1) filter that works properly on Unicode column widths.
>I believe there can't be any truly "proper" implementation, as you
>can't be certain how the terminal will handle these itself. 
Hm. I think we may not be talking about the same thing after all.
If we're talking about the Curses library, or something similar,
this is not the same. I do not think Curses has support for 
combining characters, right to left text, wide characters, etc.
However, Unicode does, and defines the column width for those.
I have an illustration of what this looks like in the picture
in the very last recipe, #44, in 
 http://training.perl.com/scripts/perlunicook.html
That is what I have been talking about by print widths. It's running
in a Mac terminal emulator, and unlike the HTML which grabs from too
many fonts, the terminal program does the right thing with the widths.
Are we talking about different things?
--tom