> <nit-picking> > Thomas, couldn't you have discussed this in the two weeks I was on > vacation? Why did you wait until I implemented the language-based > approach? > </nit-picking> Sorry, that's largely my fault. Among a bunch of other MinTTY issues we were privately discussing various more or less mad schemes to communicate the ambiguous width between terminal and application and so it took a while for us to realise that a locale-based scheme really is the best approach. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/